by Brenda Perlin
BOOK DESCRIPTION
Bo and Brooklyn’s relationship is tested while Bo’s soon-to-be-ex wife continues
to try to hold on for dear life. Will Bo’s ongoing divorce battle ever come to
an end or will she be able to break them up? “Brooklyn Rosen had high moral principles and was raised properly.
Married for over fifteen years, those standards went out the window along with
her fidelity when she met Bo. After becoming a self-proclaimed “Home Wrecker”
Brooklyn left behind her marital home, along with the damage caused by her
emotional wrecking ball. But the whispered remarks followed. In “Home Wrecker: The Brooklyn Chronicles” we learn what shaped Brooklyn, the trials of an unhappy marriage and a deep abiding love that would not be denied. We meet a troubled, spiteful wife, who does not want to become an “ex”.
Will Brooklyn and Bo survive, or will all be lost to a bitter woman?”
AUTHOR BIO
Ever since Brenda was a child she has been fascinated with writing. She draws her biggest inspiration from Judy Blume. This sparked a passion in Brenda to pursue personal expression through writing. Once she was old enough to go to coffee shops alone, Brenda recalls losing herself in the world of writing, all while documenting her ideas on paper napkins.
"There is really no creative process, I just write," - Brenda Perlin
Brenda's first book, Home Wrecker, was published with Master Koda Select Publishing. Within a short time, the book developed a strong fan base and is continuing to grow as it both entertains its readers and leaves them in a state of profound thought. In the near future, Brenda would like to have Home Wrecker expanded into a trilogy in order to tell the untold stories of her characters.
REVIEWS
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant! October 9,
2013
Format:Kindle
Edition
I received an advanced copy of Home Wrecker 2 and am more than
happy to give an honest review of the book in return.
I loved Home Wrecker 1 so I was pretty sure I would love Home Wrecker 2, too, but it totally surprised me as it wasn't just great it was brilliant! The honesty and the raw emotions just blew me away. Sure, beginning a new life and settling down with the love of your life while his crazy ex is haunting your relationship, not to mention attacking your personal space is tough but the way Brenda Perlin is telling about it takes it to a whole new level. The story is very hooking from the start and it crawls with strong, interesting characters such as Ruth, Bo's ex-wife, who is quite unstable (and that's an understatement). I know I should be more compassionate with her but she really sounds like a nasty person that probably would get diagnosed in a blink. Gerard, Brooklyn's ex...good old Gerard who is probably a really good and loyal friend but so boring even Brooklyn felt she was being married with her dad. And then Brooklyn, I really felt for her and just wanted to hug her. I think she was being incredibly brave and yet her vulnerability won me over. She might be a home wrecker but can one really break a marriage if the couple is happily married?
I loved Home Wrecker 1 so I was pretty sure I would love Home Wrecker 2, too, but it totally surprised me as it wasn't just great it was brilliant! The honesty and the raw emotions just blew me away. Sure, beginning a new life and settling down with the love of your life while his crazy ex is haunting your relationship, not to mention attacking your personal space is tough but the way Brenda Perlin is telling about it takes it to a whole new level. The story is very hooking from the start and it crawls with strong, interesting characters such as Ruth, Bo's ex-wife, who is quite unstable (and that's an understatement). I know I should be more compassionate with her but she really sounds like a nasty person that probably would get diagnosed in a blink. Gerard, Brooklyn's ex...good old Gerard who is probably a really good and loyal friend but so boring even Brooklyn felt she was being married with her dad. And then Brooklyn, I really felt for her and just wanted to hug her. I think she was being incredibly brave and yet her vulnerability won me over. She might be a home wrecker but can one really break a marriage if the couple is happily married?
Home Wrecker 2 is a must
read! Not only cause the author skillfully describes Brooklyn's life dropping
great life lessons in every turn (the reader only has to pick them up and store
them in their hearts) but also because sometimes life is not black and white. It
does not necessarily always go as planned and also because I strongly believe
that every story has two sides. Maybe after reading Brooklyn and Bo's story you
can see the world a bit more open-mindedly. Maybe the man next door who left his
wife and three children had a reason to do so or maybe `the second' woman is not
the bad guy in the story. Just saying...
5.0 out of 5 stars No
Matter What Shape Your Stomach Is In
October 9, 2013
Format:Kindle
Edition
Brenda Perlin grapples again with the awkward steps of her
times, the sour dissonance of marriage when two connect only in spurts and fits,
and the bittersweet joy of retreat, neigh full comfort, with a caring body and
soul who happens to be married. The author wears her heart on her sleeve while
at the same time keeps her head on her shoulders. She writes about evidence she
has assembled from her whole life. To borrow from Southern California's great
black and white television sleuth, Joe Friday, her interest is "just the facts,
ma'am, just the facts."
Guilt does not play a part in her introspection. Above all she avoids self-absorption as she traverses the landscape of what was and what is. She leaves open the possibility of full color resolution somehow saved from a scrapheap of monochromatic slivers. The narrative is almost pure clinical dissection with even her own warts and foibles laid bare. Home Wrecker II is another iteration of the sequence of events that became Brooklyn and Bo and all the ramifications. Wrought if it were from a well-tuned exercise regimen, the book is lean and buff, posed with just the right context and relevant retrospective. While the future is never clear, the reader turns the last page knowing that the main character is not a home wrecker since she fell in love with a man from a mere house no matter how well its trappings of material objects and its elevated "quality of life." As I became involved in the clean prose, different songs of our lives popped into my head, from Luther Ingram's "(If Loving You Is Wrong), I Don't Want To Be Right, to Graham Parker's "Temporary Beauty," and last, but not least, to Barbra Streisand's "My Heart Belongs To Me."
Guilt does not play a part in her introspection. Above all she avoids self-absorption as she traverses the landscape of what was and what is. She leaves open the possibility of full color resolution somehow saved from a scrapheap of monochromatic slivers. The narrative is almost pure clinical dissection with even her own warts and foibles laid bare. Home Wrecker II is another iteration of the sequence of events that became Brooklyn and Bo and all the ramifications. Wrought if it were from a well-tuned exercise regimen, the book is lean and buff, posed with just the right context and relevant retrospective. While the future is never clear, the reader turns the last page knowing that the main character is not a home wrecker since she fell in love with a man from a mere house no matter how well its trappings of material objects and its elevated "quality of life." As I became involved in the clean prose, different songs of our lives popped into my head, from Luther Ingram's "(If Loving You Is Wrong), I Don't Want To Be Right, to Graham Parker's "Temporary Beauty," and last, but not least, to Barbra Streisand's "My Heart Belongs To Me."
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