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Broken Things by Lauren Oliver

21 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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escape_to_reality's review against another edition

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dark mysterious reflective sad tense

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I love murder mysteries, and I liked that this one wasn't scary. (Although those can be good too) I liked the characters and how the story was told from both Brynn and Mia's perspective, both during the current events and the past.

The progression of Summer being portrayed as the perfect girl to her bad sides getting revealed reminds me of A Good Girls Guide to Murder. I was horrified when Summer killed Biscuit, but the reveal at the end about her trying to banish the shadow made it different. Ms Grey as the killer wasn't something that i figured out until a couple sentances before the reveal, when Mia mentioned the purple carnations, but it really works well into the story.

I really liked Lovelorn as a plotline in the story and as a book on its own, as well as the fanfic.

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