Reviews with content warning for Animal cruelty - Broken Things

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Broken Things by Lauren Oliver

20 reviews

_pauline's review against another edition

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dark mysterious medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Loveable characters? Yes

3.75

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frawst_disasta_reads's review against another edition

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dark emotional mysterious reflective fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

I found parts of this book engaging, especially parts 1 and the ending. I also preferred Brin’s sections because I found her more compelling.

While I didn’t always like the middle, I do appreciate the growth of the characters, and how they handled each twist.

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livelywormy32's review against another edition

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mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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bobisthecoolest's review against another edition

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dark mysterious medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.75

Meh. The premise of this sounded quite alright, but it wasn’t executed very well. This included a lot of ‘traumatic’ (by lack of a better word) scenes/lines that just weren’t necessary (e.g. the way too detailed description of animal cruelty and the extensive use of slurs and just overal lesbophobia).

The author would also sometimes throw in ‘poetic’ and ‘deep’ quotes, but that just didn’t match the rest of the writing at all.

I did like the fact that THE April Kepner was one of the narrators of the book.

This book wasn’t awful, but I wouldn’t especially recommend it either.

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jo_pow's review against another edition

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dark emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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booksandmarvel's review against another edition

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dark mysterious medium-paced

2.75

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willowmae's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

The character felt a bit too similar at times and the book was confusing at parts however I did like the blend of past and present and snippets of the stories

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