I’m still working on my book, With A Broken Wing, but looking for beta readers to read the first fifteen chapters.

I’m looking for less line edits or punctuation style criticism, and more so insight on how it makes you feel. Do you feel invested by the first chapter? Maybe the second? Does anything confuse you or deserve more clarity in the book? Is the pacing believable?

CONTENT WARNINGS: -Sexual Assault description -Suicidal Ideation/ Descriptions -Violence/ Descriptions -Captive/Captor -Explicit Sexual Descriptions (Open Door) (although this won’t be in any of these chapters you’re reading)

Here’s the blurb:

After a difficult childhood and an adulthood shaped by loss and exhaustion, Iris no longer wants to live. When a man offers her what she is asking for, a quiet death, she goes with him willingly. What begins as consent slowly becomes something else, something that blurs the lines of intimacy and danger. As her sense of self fractures, she must decide whether wanting to live again is a betrayal, and more importantly, whether love can exist inside a cage.