A review by mmmadeli
Fragile by Lisa Unger

dark emotional sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

This was okay...slow and somewhat dull and the character of Maggie really grated on me. Read it because I read Last Girl Ghosted and loved it so wanted to check out some of Unger's other work. 

What really got me was how everyone reacted after it was revealed what happened to Sarah. They kept saying it was an accident, but by my reading Travis hit her and she fell and hit her head, which is...homicide. But even worse, these kids let an innocent man be convicted and incarcerated, leading to his suicide in prison. They grapple with that somewhat, but by the end most people seem to have concluded that he was a bad guy who probably(??!) would have killed some other girl eventually anyway. Maybe even the main character! So it was...all for the best? How convenient for Jones to have this moral crisis resolved so cleanly. Idk, I'm a public defender so maybe I've got a bias here but that is just...really disturbing to me.

Honestly the resolution to the Charlene mystery was also really weird. Marshall kidnapped her but...just to talk...and both his dad and grandpa were just cool with keeping her alive in the boathouse? Travis found out and decided to rape her just because? I know they're bad dudes but come on. It's just cartoonish.