review: "The Breakable Vow" by Kathryn Anne Clarke

rating: 6 out of 5

rave: breath-taking, stunning, suspenseful, & the most memeorable book you will ever read. b/c there is nothing like it out there. 

it will keep you on your toes & on the edge of your chair.

b/c in a way, Annie's life is just ike a horror movie.

synop: Annie, 18, gets accidentally pregnant.

stop right there. i know what you are thinking. that this is another book on teen-age pregnancies. you could not be more wrong.

Annie is your average girl w. her football star boyfriend. but thing is, Annie & Keven deeply love each other. so the decide to keep the baby, get married, and move away from Chicago to Texas for him to get an education while she would be the stay-at-home mom.

and that's when it all goes out of control.

Kevin controlls every aspect of her life.
he hides her mail sent by her family,
he controls the finances.
and she is never allowed to leave the house (?) (sorry, it has been a while since i read it, but i read it twice, and i'm already planning to read it again--yup, it's that good, and it's that memorable.)

and most of all, kevin gets violent. he hits her, threatens her, and controls every aspect of her being. but he loves her. and she loves him.

and she loves him too. that's why. that is why this novel is amazing.

if you think that this novel is about the strength of love, you are wrong again.

here's the twist: kevin loosens up a bit. he lets her have a job, the violence stops.

when will Annie finally break free from Kevin? Will she ever?

it all comes down to a suspenseful, dramatic, epic last straw for her to finally break free, wake up to smell the coffee.

rant: THIS IS AN AMAZING MUST READ.

the atmosphere of the entire book is just amazing. pure literary genius.

every page of the book, you can cut through the tension in the air: the horrific beauty of it is just incredibly captivating.

you can feel Annie. you're practically right there the entire time, seeing her stuck in Kevin's web of manipulation & abuse.

you're right there with her everytime she gets reeled back in by his gestures of love.

you're right there when Kevin sweet-talks the cops into believing that there's no problem,

when Annie can't convince her neighbors, Kevin's fans too, that he's dangerous,

you're with her when she feels joy in spending money to buy a notebook. that's the kind of control Kevin had over her--she felt so naughty when she bought something behind Kevin's back--a notebook!

you're in the car with her when Kevin goes on a tirade, driving erratically, smashing her head into the dash,

and you're there when her plan falls through right at the moment she needed it the most. it was just a slip of the mouth. when she finally realized that she needed to escape, but has no power to.

it's just beautiful. with the right amount of blood, violence & gore, more than enough suspense and tension.

this book GETS YOUR HEART PUMPING, YOUR ADRENALINE RUSHING! it's better than a good scary movie--it's "Breakable Vow" by Kathryn A. Clarke.