A review by kiiwiisii
Beauty of the Broken by Tawni Waters

4.0

This book is so beautifully written, the prose really does flow like poetry and I found myself highlighting page after page, it's obvious that the author is ridiculously talented.

But the story was so awful. Horribly realistic, these things really happen, but it was just one terrible event after another. From the first chapter, it was beautiful and sad and I was hooked. But I read the last quarter of the book with a pit of dread in my stomach that I hoped would go away with some kind of hope or light at the end, but instead I sobbed for the last thirty minutes of reading with absolutely no release. I don't think a book has ever made me so angry! I wanted to scream at the characters and shake them and I wanted bad things to happen to the bad guys and it killed me that they didn't. There are many books I love that make me cry, but this one just left my heart open and aching so drastically that I don't even know if it's a good thing. I guess I'm still kind of in shock.