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A review by ayshayodels
Break by Hannah Moskowitz
3.0
First of all..... woah....
I went into this thinking the book had a completely different plot. My guess was Jonah was recklessly breaking his bones in order to make him stronger for selfish reasons, like a sport he's into or something. My guess had nothing to do with his family or his brother Jesse, and I think I like that it headed in that direction instead of what I just assumed it would be.
Jonah's life seems to completely revolve around his brother and while his brother has a unique case, one I've honestly never heard of before, it was oddly interesting. Sometimes I just hated the writing but I liked the dialogue quite a bit... There's something that bothered me about this book though. It was all levels of fucked up and demented and it's not that I can't handle books like that it's just that we don't get a greater explanation. Jonah needed help and he needed someone to realize that he was hurting in his own way but it was always made out to be that he was at fault for being protective and cautious. Of course hurting himself the way he did was wrong in all sorts of ways but he was kind of being neglected (emotionally I guess) and it just bothered me.
Also the ending annoyed me because it didn't really resolve anything. Overall it wasn't as terrible, I think I'd like to read more of Moskowitz's books.
I went into this thinking the book had a completely different plot. My guess was Jonah was recklessly breaking his bones in order to make him stronger for selfish reasons, like a sport he's into or something. My guess had nothing to do with his family or his brother Jesse, and I think I like that it headed in that direction instead of what I just assumed it would be.
Jonah's life seems to completely revolve around his brother and while his brother has a unique case, one I've honestly never heard of before, it was oddly interesting. Sometimes I just hated the writing but I liked the dialogue quite a bit... There's something that bothered me about this book though. It was all levels of fucked up and demented and it's not that I can't handle books like that it's just that we don't get a greater explanation. Jonah needed help and he needed someone to realize that he was hurting in his own way but it was always made out to be that he was at fault for being protective and cautious. Of course hurting himself the way he did was wrong in all sorts of ways but he was kind of being neglected (emotionally I guess) and it just bothered me.
Also the ending annoyed me because it didn't really resolve anything. Overall it wasn't as terrible, I think I'd like to read more of Moskowitz's books.