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A review by talonvictoria
Dancing on Broken Glass by Ka Hancock
5.0
My heart. My tiny, baby grinch heart. WOW. Let me just say, my eye leaked. (Not both of them) But my right one leaked a weird substance for about 3 seconds. It was really strange and it made me question why I like to punish myself with such emotional and turmoil filled books.
Oh yeah. Because I’m a glutton. How could I forget?
The way the entire story unfolds, with alternating POV’s between Lucy and Mickey’s journal entries was so fascinating to me. I was in love with it. Mickey’s POV’s weren’t long, but they packed the punch. They were straight to the point and hit you right in the gut. You were there, in his head. The raw and realistic portrayal of the things these characters go through is truly heartbreaking and earth shaking. It is one of the greatest things about Dancing on Broken Glass.
“Lucy, every marriage is a dance; complicated at times, lovely at times, most the time very uneventful. But with Mickey, there will be times when your dance will be on broken glass. There will be pain. And you will either flee that pain or hold tighter and dance through it to the next smooth place”
The tightness of this family and the community they lived in was so overwhelming. In the best way possible. The help they provided and the care and love they provided to not just Lucy and Mickey but every one else around them was spectacular and truly inspiring. Not to mention, the development of the characters and the emotions they felt just captivated me from the get go. Mickey for the win!
“Michael Chandler was always my hero. And now you must let him be hers.”
DEBUT. NOVEL. That is what this book is. I couldn’t believe it when I heard it because the author’s writing was completely out of this world.
I will end with this: Dancing on Broken Glass is not a love story. It is a life story. It’s a story about hope and love and the what if’s. It’s about mental illness and the struggle that it provokes from the person itself and their surrounding peers. The struggle and the hurt. And all of the things in between.
Oh yeah. Because I’m a glutton. How could I forget?
The way the entire story unfolds, with alternating POV’s between Lucy and Mickey’s journal entries was so fascinating to me. I was in love with it. Mickey’s POV’s weren’t long, but they packed the punch. They were straight to the point and hit you right in the gut. You were there, in his head. The raw and realistic portrayal of the things these characters go through is truly heartbreaking and earth shaking. It is one of the greatest things about Dancing on Broken Glass.
“Lucy, every marriage is a dance; complicated at times, lovely at times, most the time very uneventful. But with Mickey, there will be times when your dance will be on broken glass. There will be pain. And you will either flee that pain or hold tighter and dance through it to the next smooth place”
The tightness of this family and the community they lived in was so overwhelming. In the best way possible. The help they provided and the care and love they provided to not just Lucy and Mickey but every one else around them was spectacular and truly inspiring. Not to mention, the development of the characters and the emotions they felt just captivated me from the get go. Mickey for the win!
“Michael Chandler was always my hero. And now you must let him be hers.”
DEBUT. NOVEL. That is what this book is. I couldn’t believe it when I heard it because the author’s writing was completely out of this world.
I will end with this: Dancing on Broken Glass is not a love story. It is a life story. It’s a story about hope and love and the what if’s. It’s about mental illness and the struggle that it provokes from the person itself and their surrounding peers. The struggle and the hurt. And all of the things in between.