Their non stop schedule and late night music is exhausting for her son Grey. All this might be manageable if Claire did not have a 10 year old son who is suffering with her. Sometimes she has debilitating panic attacks where she will curl up into a fetal ball. To ameliorate her feelings of anxiety and fear, she spends as little time at home as possible and when she is at home, she cranks heavy metal music loud and obsessively checks the locks on her windows and doors. She tried to tell her mother and her mother denied that this could ever happen. (This isn’t universally true, of course, as some popular books like Sylvia Day’s Bared to You series features therapy for both characters as well as medication for the male protag)Ĭlaire Murphy suffers from severe case of PTSD as a result of a rape and assault in her home by a neighbor of her mothers. Even worse, if the person suffers a trauma in life, these traumas are cured by love, as if therapy or medication is somehow too pitiful to be connected to protagonist in a romance novel. Some heroes can suffer from PTSD or maybe a slight case of Aspergers but for the most part, our heroes and, particularly our heroines, cannot be mentally ill. People can have cancer or colds, broken limbs or broken hearts. One thing our society doesn’t do very well is accept mental illness as an ordinary and acceptable illness. I struggled writing this review because so few romance books feature characters with mental illness. Jane C Reviews Contemporary / PTSD 2 Comments DecemREVIEW: Espresso in the Morning by Dorie Graham
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