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Let me give you a brief history of Broken, first of all. Broken is a story written by someone I know only as InuSaga using characters from the hit TV show, InuYasha. To call it "fanfiction" would be degrading, as she only uses two characters and they are so far outside the realm of the show, only the names are really the same. InuSaga published this story online, where I found it and fell in love. Katie had let me borrow a book of hers that was similar to Broken (it used characters from a TV show, but it was an actual, published book). I've always wanted to make book covers so it stuck in my head that it was possible to publish a story even if it used copyright characters.
A little searching brought me to Blurb.com, which allows you to create a cover and have copies of a book printed out. The nice thing about Blurb is that you don't have to buy in bulk. I ordered two copies, one for me and one for Katie, whose face appears on the cover.
That said, it's time for the gushing (I have to gush over every book because if they didn't make me want to gush, they wouldn't be on my bookshelf).
Broken is a masterpiece. It's no happy fairytale, it's not a clichéd romance, it's a harsh, gritty story about the need for revenge and how it can wreak havoc in your life. The entire story leads up to a single conversation in the last chapter, and even though I know it's coming every time, I cry again and again. It's a long, hard journey to make, even just in your mind, especially if you've been betrayed and wanted revenge before. InuSaga is a genius with dialogue and plotting. It makes me sad that she only writes fanfiction, because I have no doubt that she could be a bestselling author if she used her own characters.
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