A review by bobisthecoolest
Broken Things by Lauren Oliver

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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