Beautiful Broken Things

by Sara Barnard

[Joséphine]

Note: I received an advanced reading copy from a local distributor in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.

Initial thoughts: I've been in Caddy's situation before. More than once. While the outcomes varied, and I'd like to think I was a great deal more sensible than her, I completely understood. Beautiful Broken Things isn't a happy book but what I liked was the intensity of friendship it embodied. Not every friendship is equal though — some are good, some are bad, and others don't make a dent either way.

Realism and reality aside, the resolution followed so quickly after the climax that the climax hadn't even fully sunk in yet. With a little tighter pacing, my rating would've been closer to five stars. As it stands, My mind is in tangles, dealing with my memories as well as the book that I just finished reading.