Author Thelma Giomi
The Award Winning: Shatter My Heart
Books that are emotionally engaging, passionately crafted, and infused with hope.
Shatter My Heart
From the first sentence in The Award Winning: Shatter My Heart the reader is immediately immerse in the challenges encountered by Ian, Lauren, Nikki and Paul as their hearts and lives are shattered by illness, loss, infidelity and the demands of commitment to each other.
The engaging prose of this book offers a unique and intriguing sequence of events and experiences creating a captivating energy. It is not simply a recounting of Ian’s psychological development. It is not just a medical drama of Lauren’s missed diagnosis and the dramatic events that occur when the medical profession fails her. It is not just a story about their turbulent marriage or the tests of friendships. It is all of these things woven into a constantly moving narrative. Shatter My Heart draws the reader into its complexity through an authentic representation of life speaking to audiences who long for these very issues to be dealt with in honest and inspiring visual prose.
Passionately crafted the writing takes the reader deep inside Ian, Lauren, Nikki and Paul’s experiences. In this dynamic story the four friends, individually and together, face and overcome some of life’s devastating events. They emerge from these challenges with poise and compassion, becoming the heroes of their own lives.
Reviews
Shatter My Heart
This novel is well written, well organized, well researched and simply great storytelling.
The characters were well developed, emotionally complex individually as well as how each interacted with other characters. The storytelling was amazing as the author added details about each individual through a natural progression of time. The emotions of each character are believable and remain raw and personal throughout the story instead of wrapping things up nicely and neatly. The struggles of Dr. Lauren Wimberley point to a very real problem for people dealing with an undiagnosed illness or chronic illness.
The use of the journal from, Dr. Ian Blackburn’s ancestor provides a unique approach to this character’s own personal and deeply emotional struggles. The story is captivating and even though it’s fiction, it also reads like a self-help book for patients and their families who are dealing with chronic illness.
Shatter My Heart
Shatter My Heart is well and cleanly written overall and turns an important life experience into quite a powerful story.
Thelma Giomi’s characters are well-drawn, and even the ones who start out as jerks (Ian!) become complex and reveal more sides to them. I especially loved Nikki and Paul (I think they could have their own novel). The fields of study and interest for all these characters, and their work together, added a lot of interest to the plot line.
Giomi tells a good story, and often the descriptions of characters, and the settings where she places them, are quite lovely.
Shatter My Heart Summer Reading
What a great summer read-very absorbing(and informative). It is clear to me that you are a real Wordsmith at both poetry and prose…a literary gift.
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