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August 30, 2008
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| Broken Promises: A New Beginning by Susan K. Droney | Reviewed by Rickey R. Mallory |  | Publisher: Hard Shell Word Factory
http://www.hardshell.com/
ISBN: 1582000433, B0000ANF9Y
Genre: Fiction
Subgenre: Mainstream
Release date: November 1, 1998
Format: 3 1/2 Disk, (HTML). e-book (Microsoft Reader)
Pages:
Price: $4.50, $5.00 | Farrel Drake can't seem to get away from bad relationships. Her first husband was a philanderer who had run off and left her with two daughters to raise. Then she had married a man who turned out to have a personality disorder. He had turned their son against her, as well as inflicting all sorts of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse on her and emotional abuse on her daughters.
Farrel is finally forced to seek help from the police to protect her and her family from her abusive ex-husband. The police detective she meets is a wonderful man, the type of man she has always longed for, a man who will not only love her and keep her safe, but will also love and embrace her children. But Farrel is carrying a lot of baggage from her past. She has a lot of growing and healing to do before she can start over.
Susan K. Droney demonstrates an understanding of abuse and victimization that speaks of personal experience. Her heroine's journey from victim to victor is not easy to read. It is painful and fraught with the heroine's mistakes and problems. But Farrel manages to triumph in the end.
Problems with the book include a one-dimensional villain and a too-perfect hero, but this story is one which needs to be told. By no means a romance, it does have romantic elements. Ultimately it is a story of one woman's triumph. It proves that with enough courage, a woman can heal and learn wisdom and can find happiness. | | |
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