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Belted (2012)

by C.J. Graves(Favorite Author)

3.41 of 5 Votes: 3

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English

genre

Romance

publisher

C.J. Graves

review 1: This is a dark tale about love and the many forms of abuse one can encounter in various relationships. I would have given the book 4 stars if it weren't for the ending. Not only did I find it to be so abrupt, I found it to be quite unrealistic. A bad, bad ending is what I found it to be. It was as though the author decided she'd written enough and/or got tired, and just wanted it to end quickly. Too bad as it was a good story.
review 2: The author does a great job of capturing what it feels like to be in an abusive relationship. Sometimes the people around you see what's happening and are too scared to act. They don't want to be in the middle of a bad situation. I was lucky enough to have someone who didn't even like me take a stand; a girl in my choir that my ... moreabuser made a confession to went to one of our professors, who went to my mother, who snuck me out. The one scene in this book that threw me was the one where Maria calls Chuck to have him take Chastity out of her home. My own mother was never strong, and gave me a poor example to follow by remaining with my abusive father as I was growing up. She dared to leave him not long after I started college. At the time that my own bad relationship was gearing up to become a life-threatening one, in spite of being in a psych med-induced fog a lot of the time, my mother still found it in her to pin my abuser to a wall and threaten his testicles. She showed true bravery, and proved how much of a loving mother she is in spite of having allowed so much to happen to us during our childhood and youth under my father's oppression. I wish that had been my wake-up call to leave my abuser, but I defended him instead. He had problems, and I wanted to help him. I'm not a doctor or a priest, though, and that wasn't my job.My job was to survive. Several years later, I was dating a wonderful and kindhearted man who made me feel safe. I went out for a walk one morning and almost didn't make it home. I made a mistake by being polite to a stranger and was cornered in a ravine. No one knew where I was. No one could save me. My survival was in my own hands. In my case the way out was to remain calm, talk, appeal to the man's better nature. Two hours later he let me go unscathed. I was VERY lucky. But I also felt stronger than I ever had before. I broke up with the nice guy I'd been dating while I struggled with understanding what had happened to me, and my reaction to it... but eventually we ended up together again because we get each other and love each other, NOT because he makes me feel safe. You have to be strong on the inside, where it really counts, to survive. It sounds simple and cliche, but only until you're in the fray and either find it in yourself or don't.This story captures all of that. By talking about myself here, I know it's not exactly a review, but what I mean to say is YES. This IS how it feels. Well done. less

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