I find it repulsive that people have marked this as ‘erotica’ on Goodreads. It’s safe to say this isn’t an easy book to read, it’s extremely graphic and violent. This was the most unique book I’ve ever read. Other than the topic, something I found so dark about this book was that sometimes the writing was… funny? It felt exceptionally wrong smiling at something written in a book that’s whole purpose is to highlight the worst of humanity, but Harlen holds nothing back. A big part of what makes this novel so interesting is the anonymity of it. It’s a battle of strength, wits and wills. Not only a battle for me to get through but also a battle of survival for our main unnamed main character. It asks heavy, and often uncomfortable, questions about the very act of rape itself and will make you question things you would have thought unquestionable. This book focuses heavily on the prolonged torture and rape of an unnamed woman by an unnamed man.

I’ve read books that break boundaries before, but this was something else. It’s unlike anything I’ve ever read before and will ever likely read again. I have struggled immensely to review this book coherently. The only way she can win is if she rips away the protective lies she’s told herself, the hard shell of indifference she’s hidden in, and becomes again what she has not been since she lost everything that mattered to her, years ago: human. The only way he can lose is if he finds himself responding to his victim on a human level. On the surface, this intruder has all the advantages: strength, weapons, ruthlessness. In the psychological thriller BREAK HER, one woman will find herself in this almost unthinkable situation, and one man will discover that he has finally come up against someone unlike any of those he has destroyed before. How would you hold onto your sanity, your self-esteem, your very soul against someone determined to annihilate all three? What would you do if you awakened to find a dangerous stranger in your house? In your bed, next to you? Now your home has become your prison, and your body, a battlefield. “The moment she woke up, her nightmare began…”

Break her by bg harlen