Tied to each other out of need, duty, obligation, their reality is far different than the expectations they had when they married. He halfheartedly confronts her about this, but really doesn't want to know the answer. I think it's perfectly human for Adam and Sadie to both love and hate each other. He notices that Sadie spends a little more time on her appearance once a month. Adam, who's brain works perfectly fine, even if his body does not, is no idiot. I can't imagine the guilt Sadie feels living vicariously through Joe's women, as he tells his tales of conquest. I have to say, this part of the story is heartbreaking. Resentment, frustration, guilt and anger are felt by both, as they erect walls as a defence against a cruel reality. Sadie spends her life wearing a mask, both in her home life and in her professional life. Eventually, the mask begins to crack, after years of living with a husband who, although he loves her, is bitter, demanding and completely helpless. Gradually, Sadie becomes jealous of Joe's women, as she becomes more and more invested in her romantic feelings for him. Her monthly interludes with Joe become an escape from reality she desperately needs. A successful career counseling others and a home life filled with sacrifice and servitude leaves Sadie as a very lonely woman. A tragic accident leads to a paradigm shift in the life Sadie and Adam could have shared together. Hart takes her time filling the reader in on pieces to the puzzle. Why does Sadie meet Joe and listen to his stories? She seemed to have met the man of her dreams in Adam. At this point, I started to wonder what had happened. In college, she meets a handsome graduate student, Adam, and they fall in love. "This was my role, disinterested observer, as his was playful rogue." The story, which is told from first person point-of-view, Mary's point-of-view, is done so because the woman, Sadie, has imagined herself as Mary. She is a acquaintenance who sits on the same bench as Joe once a month at lunchtime. We then become aware that Joe is actually retelling this story to a friend. Once the deed is done, and she "got it over with" she becomes very uncomfortable with the intimacy with a stranger and quickly leaves, leaving a bemused Joe behind. Mary is an inexperienced young woman who has never gone to bed with a man, and she's chosen a stranger named Joe to lose her virginity to. It's the kind of book that stays with you long after you've turned the last page.īroken begins with a hookup between Mary and Joe. I think "haunting," "beautiful," and "poignant" are more appropriate adjectives.
You may have seen it in a bookstore, found it from an internet search engine if you requested books to read after the phenomenon called Fifty Shades of Grey, or had it recommended by a likeminded internet friend.įirst of all, Broken is much more than an erotic novel.
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