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4.03 AVERAGE
4.03 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Fast read, kept my interest.
alternating timelines always seem to be enjoyable to me.
1950 Idlewild Hall, an all girls boarding school for the girls no one wants, the trouble makers, the shame of the family. We get to hear from Katie talking about her and her 3 friends. Then one of them goes missing, shotty police work says she is a runaway, but her friends never thought that was the case.
2014 journalist Fiona is struggling with life since her sister Deb was killed 20 years ago and her body was left on the abandoned field at Idlewild Hall. She knows that the killer is behind bars, but something nags at her and she just can't stop picking at it.
Now a rich woman Margaret has bought Idlewild Hall and wants to restore it to an all girls school again and when the digging starts a body is found, this starts Fiona down a trail of trying to find out what happened to this girl along with still trying to find out what really happened to her sister.
Amongst all of this, there is a ghost story entwined. Mary Hand, she has been haunting the grounds of Idlewild Hall for more than 60 years. Even if you don't like ghost stories she fits into this one nicely.
Honestly there wasn't anything "bad" about this book, it is quite unbelievable but that doesn't really bother me. It was a fast read, I devoured it in a day so it clearly kept my interest. It was just good though, nothing earth shattering but I enjoyed the story and wanted to know how it was going to end, even if some of it became pretty predictable throughout.
alternating timelines always seem to be enjoyable to me.
1950 Idlewild Hall, an all girls boarding school for the girls no one wants, the trouble makers, the shame of the family. We get to hear from Katie talking about her and her 3 friends. Then one of them goes missing, shotty police work says she is a runaway, but her friends never thought that was the case.
2014 journalist Fiona is struggling with life since her sister Deb was killed 20 years ago and her body was left on the abandoned field at Idlewild Hall. She knows that the killer is behind bars, but something nags at her and she just can't stop picking at it.
Now a rich woman Margaret has bought Idlewild Hall and wants to restore it to an all girls school again and when the digging starts a body is found, this starts Fiona down a trail of trying to find out what happened to this girl along with still trying to find out what really happened to her sister.
Amongst all of this, there is a ghost story entwined. Mary Hand, she has been haunting the grounds of Idlewild Hall for more than 60 years. Even if you don't like ghost stories she fits into this one nicely.
Honestly there wasn't anything "bad" about this book, it is quite unbelievable but that doesn't really bother me. It was a fast read, I devoured it in a day so it clearly kept my interest. It was just good though, nothing earth shattering but I enjoyed the story and wanted to know how it was going to end, even if some of it became pretty predictable throughout.
dark
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I loved the book. It was a great read and I was hooked until the end. Would recommend to anyone interested.
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
3.5 stars
The Broken Girls is a traditional plucky-reporter-with-a-dark-past crime/suspense novel with a supernatural twist. I found the story very interesting, particularly with the way it jumped between the perspectives of a group of girls in the 50s and our reporter heroine in the present day, with references to an event in the 90s in between. It's tightly plotted and everything is tied up very nicely at the end. However, at the same time, not much really happened in the book and there's way more telling than showing; most of the information is disclosed through long info-dumping conversations, which made it a bit of a slog to get through at times. Overall though I think it's a great book for curling up with during the autumn/winter season.
The Broken Girls is a traditional plucky-reporter-with-a-dark-past crime/suspense novel with a supernatural twist. I found the story very interesting, particularly with the way it jumped between the perspectives of a group of girls in the 50s and our reporter heroine in the present day, with references to an event in the 90s in between. It's tightly plotted and everything is tied up very nicely at the end. However, at the same time, not much really happened in the book and there's way more telling than showing; most of the information is disclosed through long info-dumping conversations, which made it a bit of a slog to get through at times. Overall though I think it's a great book for curling up with during the autumn/winter season.
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated