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Broken Captive
Jenna Mathews lived a life of pain. With an abusive mother and a father that doesn't have time, isolation swamps her. Pain envelops her daily and her only release...self mutilation. When Jeff Simon reaches out to her, showing her what love truly is, Jenna feels hope for the first time in her life. Hope falls short though when Jeff is tragically ripped from her life, and she turns back to doing the only thing that gives her an escape.
What the future has in store...is beyond what she could have ever fathomed.
Short story of fiction, pain, love and healing.
What the future has in store...is beyond what she could have ever fathomed.
Short story of fiction, pain, love and healing.
69 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2011
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B.K. Walker
24 books170 followersB.K. Walker is an Amazon Bestselling Author with a love to help authors that are challenged by writing, publishing, marketing and selling their books. She wrote and published her first book in 2009 while she was a single mother of 3, her youngest a newborn, going to Nursing School full time and working a full time job. Now 17 titles later, with 2 of her books landing on Amazon's best seller's list, she continues her writing career while helping others master their marketing and sell more books.
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November 16, 2011
Broken Captive
by
Bk Walker
Bk is not only a very talented author but my dear friend as well. She approached me wanting me to 'squeeze' in a short story she had written. As a friend, I told her I would always make time for her. And I am very glad I did.
Broken Captive did not feel like a 'story', it felt like reality. Cutting is a very real and serious issue with our young people these days. And yes, it even affects some adults. People do this because they usually have no other release for the whatever pain or issues they are going through at the time. In this book, Jenna had no father, and her mother was a drunk who slept around with any man who would have her and was physically abusive to her. Jenna felt she was an outcast with no real friends. Instead of just killing herself, she cut herself to release that awful feeling of hopelessness. That was her pattern until she met a boy named Jeff, who would profess his unconditional love to her and prove to her there is another way. He became her rock, her salvation. Until tragedy struck.
This book brought me to tears and made my heart skip a few beats. This is a book that stays with you because it is based on fact. Oh, the characters have been changed etc. but this is life. And if not taken care of, it will usually lead to suicide either by the cutting or just because they can't take it anymore. This book may have been a short read, but it hits the reader with a hard, powerful punch right in the gut and heart.
I recommend all parents read this, and after they have read it, give it to your child. I hope that a person who is going through this very real illness picks this book up, and let it make a difference in their life. I am very proud of my friend BK because she has made a difference.
I give this book without hesitation five stars *****
Reviewed by
Nora Chipley Barteau
http://norachipleybarteau.blogspot.com/
by
Bk Walker
Bk is not only a very talented author but my dear friend as well. She approached me wanting me to 'squeeze' in a short story she had written. As a friend, I told her I would always make time for her. And I am very glad I did.
Broken Captive did not feel like a 'story', it felt like reality. Cutting is a very real and serious issue with our young people these days. And yes, it even affects some adults. People do this because they usually have no other release for the whatever pain or issues they are going through at the time. In this book, Jenna had no father, and her mother was a drunk who slept around with any man who would have her and was physically abusive to her. Jenna felt she was an outcast with no real friends. Instead of just killing herself, she cut herself to release that awful feeling of hopelessness. That was her pattern until she met a boy named Jeff, who would profess his unconditional love to her and prove to her there is another way. He became her rock, her salvation. Until tragedy struck.
This book brought me to tears and made my heart skip a few beats. This is a book that stays with you because it is based on fact. Oh, the characters have been changed etc. but this is life. And if not taken care of, it will usually lead to suicide either by the cutting or just because they can't take it anymore. This book may have been a short read, but it hits the reader with a hard, powerful punch right in the gut and heart.
I recommend all parents read this, and after they have read it, give it to your child. I hope that a person who is going through this very real illness picks this book up, and let it make a difference in their life. I am very proud of my friend BK because she has made a difference.
I give this book without hesitation five stars *****
Reviewed by
Nora Chipley Barteau
http://norachipleybarteau.blogspot.com/
December 3, 2011
What do you do when it seems like your life is falling apart? How do you deal with your emotions? The main character, Jenna, is in a bad place during this novel. She deals with a mother who abuses her and a father who doesn't appear to care very much about her welfare. Jenna is also a cutter. She harms herself to release emotions. Jenna is a very sympathetic character, it is hard not to feel bad for her throughout most of the book. Her life begins to turn around when she meets Jeff. Jeff becomes a bit of a love interest as well as friend; he stabilizes her. The book takes off from there.
The characters were easy to like, Jenna and Jeff that is. The author makes Jenna's pain and raw emotions so real, the reader will feel as if Jenna could be a friend of his/hers. Jeff complements Jenna perfectly, the reader will be rooting for their relationship. The events were fast-paced and intriguing, particularly when Jenna meets Jeff. The ending was perfect, wouldn't change a thing. This book is recommended to adult readers, maybe young adult as well depending on how they would approach the topic of cutting.
April 11, 2012
something that is devasting but destined. i loved it. it was very sad but it show the pain of lose and the joy of love.
September 5, 2014
I could relate to a lot of this story. It was short but touching.
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