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A review by godotwillseeyounow
Other Broken Things by Christa Desir
4.0
Even though this is a book about a character recovering from alcoholism, going to AA meetings and confronting life, it was much more relatable than one would have thought; or perhaps it's just me thinking about trying out the Twelve Steps...
The story never sounded fake or forced, the plot twists weren't for the sake of having plot twists, they were just things that happened, as they do in life, and you are unable to control them.
Sometimes I didn't like Natalie (the main character) and that was fine, too. She is a brat, and self-absorbed, and at times her problems sounded like rich, white kid problems, born out of her own fault. Yet somehow, that didn't make her terrible to read.
Even though there were mentions of God, it never turned preachy, which I liked.
The ending was great, not a happily-ever-after, but a there's-still-work-to-be-done-and-that's-okay one. And I really liked that. It had great closure for the story and its characters, all of them completing an arch or having moved from the point in which they began; for once, it was a satisfying ending.
The story never sounded fake or forced, the plot twists weren't for the sake of having plot twists, they were just things that happened, as they do in life, and you are unable to control them.
Sometimes I didn't like Natalie (the main character) and that was fine, too. She is a brat, and self-absorbed, and at times her problems sounded like rich, white kid problems, born out of her own fault. Yet somehow, that didn't make her terrible to read.
Even though there were mentions of God, it never turned preachy, which I liked.
The ending was great, not a happily-ever-after, but a there's-still-work-to-be-done-and-that's-okay one. And I really liked that. It had great closure for the story and its characters, all of them completing an arch or having moved from the point in which they began; for once, it was a satisfying ending.