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A review by lararararara
Beauty of the Broken by Tawni Waters
3.0
Five stars. This is a warning: this book is extraordinarily depressing and the only good things in the protagonist's life are taken away. Literally nothing happy happens in this book. For example, *Spoiler Alert* the protagonist's brother Iggy is brain-damaged with little chance of recovery. However, near the end of the book, it appears he has finally returned and is thinking straight. Shortly after this revelation, he is murdered.
You see what I mean?
However, this was beautifully written and definitely emotionally-wrenching. A unique read.
EDIT: After thinking this over a little, I dropped the rating to three stars. The beginning of this book was really not good. I was under the impression that Mara was much younger than fifteen - what teenager still says Momma and Daddy? (and by the way it's not just her and her brother, Xylia is supposedly some kind of hip sophisticated girl and she says Daddy too) - and there were some strange things just jammed in there like the fact that Henry is psychic and forgives Mara immediately for having accidentally accused him of rape and not revealing the truth for way too long, the fact that Mara thinks she's an angel in the beginning of the book like what the hell was that?, the fact that Iggy occasionally becomes unbrain-damaged at the perfect times for the plot, and the fact that the only "gray" character is Mara's mom, while everyone else is either good or evil? Somehow this book was good anyway. I don't know why.
You see what I mean?
However, this was beautifully written and definitely emotionally-wrenching. A unique read.
EDIT: After thinking this over a little, I dropped the rating to three stars. The beginning of this book was really not good. I was under the impression that Mara was much younger than fifteen - what teenager still says Momma and Daddy? (and by the way it's not just her and her brother, Xylia is supposedly some kind of hip sophisticated girl and she says Daddy too) - and there were some strange things just jammed in there like the fact that Henry is psychic and forgives Mara immediately for having accidentally accused him of rape and not revealing the truth for way too long, the fact that Mara thinks she's an angel in the beginning of the book like what the hell was that?, the fact that Iggy occasionally becomes unbrain-damaged at the perfect times for the plot, and the fact that the only "gray" character is Mara's mom, while everyone else is either good or evil? Somehow this book was good anyway. I don't know why.