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Love Like Broken Glass: A Sapphic Love Story about Dissociated Identities and Lonely Hearts

Cass Matthews
4.8 / 5.0
Published: 2025 ISBN: 9798279201891

Description

Elara lives a life fractured by silence, navigating a complex reality where she shares her mind with others. As a host of a DID system, she has spent years carefully curating a solitary existence, keeping the world at arm’s length to protect the delicate balance of her internal life. That stability shatters the moment she starts working alongside Julianne, a woman whose warmth feels like sunlight breaking through a long winter. What begins as a standard workplace friendship quickly deepens into an undeniable, magnetic pull. But for Elara, love is a dangerous territory. She must navigate not only the growing intensity of her feelings for Julianne but also the ghosts of her own past and the hidden, mythical echoes that seem to pulse just beneath the surface of her day-to-day life. This story is a tender exploration of what it means to be truly seen when you feel like you are made of many pieces. It is a heartfelt friends-to-lovers romance that balances the weight of mental health with the magic of finding a home in another person. Honest, deeply moving, and beautifully human, this book offers a sanctuary for anyone who has ever felt like they were living behind glass.

Customer Reviews

Top 2 from Amazon
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Anna Szudejko
January 1, 2026
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From a system, amazing did representation

I am the host of a did system and I absolutely love this book. I relate to a lot of aspects in this book, including one of the bad panic attacks that happened in this book. I saw elements of my relationship with my husband who I've known for 9 years and my best friend who my system and I met in middle school, both amazing guys who I'm lucky to know. I highly recommend everyone who can read this without problems read this book at least once because the depiction of a system in this book is amazing for showing one possible and very real way for did to present. I self diagnosed myself with did, and then had it professionally confirmed, years after I(the host) started officially meeting the rest of my system and learning how to work with my system to be functional so having the main character undiagnosed professionally but still aware of the rest of the system is really nice to see especially since Moonknight and fight club, the only other stories with a did system I relate to, didn't really have things I related to when it came to the journey of them getting diagnosed or recognized as a system. I would rate this book higher if I could
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Terry Bruck
May 1, 2026

LOVED IT!

I never knew much about DID before this book. I'm so glad I read it. I learned something and I was entertained. I will definitely be checking out other books from this author. Amazing read and storytelling.