Jen Waite

A Beautiful, Terrible Thing: A Memoir of Marriage and Betrayal by Jen Waite was provided to me for an honest review through netgalley. Thank you to all parties for letting me take part in this heartbreaking journey of love, lose, and rebuild. What would you do if the man you married turned out to be nothing like you thought he was. Every girl wants her dream guy and what Jen Waite got was a total nightmare with a side of sunshine in the form of a beautiful little girl. First off I love the setup of this book. The before and after headings made it extremely easy to fallow. You get to see how the romance started how the love bloomed and in the end how the whole thing falls to pieces. This story is one of love and lose where Jen did everything right thought she was living the perfect life only to have to start over. Although I have a background in psychology and have a very good understanding of the husbands disorder I find it really hard to find one redeeming quality in him. Although I understand sickness I don’t feel that anything positive will be done seeing as the husband does not wish to receive help. Over all I feel that this is an honest read that everyone can relate to in some cases even live through nicely done 5 stars all the way.… (meer)

Wow! a shocking true story. Well written and well paced, around a constantly alternating Before and After approach that actually works rather than drags. I feel bad saying that, as this is personal! it's not just about the way the memoir is written, this is someone's life! Scary stuff. I read this in almost one sitting.

Reader, Hikate, below, makes a good point that this particular sociopath treated Jen callously, badly, but it was psychological torture not physically threatening behaviour or even stalking. In a way I suppose that was partly why she kept wishing and hoping that he was otherwise, would "come home", thus dragging out the misery.

I think these memoirs serve an important purpose.… (meer)