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This is a
hard book to rate, so I’m just not going to do it. I will review it though,
because there was a lot in the story. Firstly and most importantly, take that
trigger warning seriously. I know there are triggers on a lot of things, but
in this story, it is graphic, it is raw, and I had to skip it, and I don’t
have a trigger. It was just too much, and I get why it was there for the
story, but it took me away from the story rather than keep me in it. And that
is part of the problem I had with the story, it gave us this brutal tear down
and then we didn’t see the healing and building back up. We got the physical,
but the emotional is touched on, but as a reader, I wasn’t healed with the
character on her emotions. Which is weird, as the previous book in the series
gave us all sorts of insight into feelings and emotions and the journey to
healthiness for them, this one left it off the pages. What was on the page
was weak at best, and revolved around the characters healing each other. I
loved our heroine, she saw her flaws and wanted to heal in her own way, and
did that. Our hero also has issues and it is never hinted how he is healing,
other than “I’m not going to be that way”, and then his go-to mechanism when
triggered is violence. I loved this hero, how sweet he was, his
self-awareness, how kind and gentle and understanding he is, but he also has
some deep seeded issues that are just left on the shelf. That is the
disconnect in the story for me, the abuse was not connected to healing. If
the detailed description had of been left off the page, then this would have
easily been a 4 or 5 star read. With it on the page, and the conclusion left
off, it feels sensationalized for shock value, not part of a story
development. I wouldn’t say don’t read this book, I think it deals with important,
valid, and real issues in a stark manner. For me, it just didn’t meet the
mark, and I so wanted it to get there for these two characters that I liked
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