4.5 stars. If you have ever read a novel written by Megan Hart then you know her books are raw, gritty and about as real as life gets. Her latest release, Tear You Apart, is no exception. This unflinchingly honest portrayal of a long term marriage withering under the weight of complacency and neglect is intense, emotional and quite heartbreaking.

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Recientemente , leí un libro con más o menos la misma trama . La mujer infiel , el mujeriego que la seduce , y entre los dos el amor y la duda . ARsen era el nombre y , honestamente , para mi fue un dolor de cabeza con una prosa horrible .

Este , sin embargo ...

Este es lo que ARSEN quiso ser pero le faltó la racionalidad y la experiencia suficiente para ser .

Megan Hart es Una de las mejores autoras de ficción romántica (aunque el romance no este siempre presente , como esta novela en cuestión ) .

Tear you apart es , por momentos , tan asquerosamente realista que resulta difícil leer ... pero vale la pena hacerlo para llegar a ese final .
No lo recomiendo para quienes son obsesivas de los finales felices . ( )

Epigraph from Tear You Apart
"Sometimes love does not have the most honorable beginnings, and the endings, the endings will break you in half. It’s everything in between we live for.
-Ann Patchett, from the essay The Sense of an Ending"

Review

Tear You Apart is a sophisticated and heart-wrenchingly beautiful love story. Its powerfully expressed POV affects the reader with an intense, intimate and all consuming experience.

The sex is white-hot, tantalizing and utterly satisfying. Each stolen encounter is unique and vividly described with a raw erotic beauty. The seasoned lovers fervently devour and worship each other's bodies. Elizabeth and Will are unabashedly bold and assertive when giving and achieving ecstasy. Their potent connection is thrilling, urgent and profound.

This is not a passive read. It’s visceral, jagged and stunning. It’s bittersweet. Pleasure and pain. You feel everything. You ride high on lovely peaks of blissful giddiness, you throb with every breathless carnal pleasure, you break with every desolate stretch of pain, sadness and despair.

Reading TEAR YOU APART lifted my spirits, tantalized and turned me on, shattered my heart and ultimately left me altered and inspired. I loved every word.

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4.5

I read the first third of this on an airplane, but I had to stop because I started crying. I slept for the rest of the flight and dreamed about the characters. For about the last fifty pages and then for 45 minutes after I finished reading it, I just sobbed uncontrollably.

I don't think Megan Hart's novels are for everyone, but when I read her work it feels like she's writing about ME. Does that make sense? The only other author who impacts me in this same way is Gayle Forman. Megan Hart writes women the same way Forman writes teenage girls. ( )

This is one of those books that, after you read the final sentence, you say to yourself "What?" I went back, re-read the ending and I'm still not sure I get it.

This is definitely a darker romance. Elizabeth is a married and mother of 2 grown daughters. She works in a art gallery ran by a college friend. This is where she meets Will. Even though she knows she is playing with fire (and the same can be said for Will), they begin spending time together. A affair begins that they both know will change them forever. Should she leave her husband for him? Should Will leave Elizabeth alone? Can either of them walk away?

I don't know if I liked this book or not. I had a hard time reading about her basically leaving the bed of Will and going home to have sex with her husband. (Even though I understand her conflict, I just feel like she would have at least withdraw some from her husband. And I know she did, just not in this area.) The chemistry was there, the story (in my mind) would end one of 2 ways (which it did NOT.) Anyway, if dark romance, love affairs & art galleries are your thing, this is your book. (I want to say more but I can't without spoiling the book.)

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