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A review by aryelee
The Broke Hearts by Matt Mendez
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
medium-paced
3.75
I enjoyed this book more than the first one, Barely Missing Everything. The characters have grown up some, we get more focus on one of the characters in the previous novel, and the focus on fathers and sons and how they grow up as reflections is very thought provoking. I enjoy how Matt Mendez writes about families and the complicated relationships between everyone. The shifting between narrative to script worked very well and seeing how the characters have changed since the first book was incredible.
He continues to stick to a simplistic writing style, so while it's easy to read and fairly easy to go through a book quickly, no specific passage or section stuck out to me. This is just personal preference; I like more lyrical, poetic writing styles, but his works very well for a contemporary novel like this one.
He continues to stick to a simplistic writing style, so while it's easy to read and fairly easy to go through a book quickly, no specific passage or section stuck out to me. This is just personal preference; I like more lyrical, poetic writing styles, but his works very well for a contemporary novel like this one.