Firstly, I pretty much despised the narrator - Caddy - and never really came to like or understand any of the characters or their actions. Authors like Leah Raeder and Courtney Summers understand and capture this world perfectly.īut I had so many problems with Beautiful Broken Things. I love books that explore this subject - the way teenage girls get so wrapped up in one another, loving and hating each other with a furious intensity. It's British YA about the jealousies, passions and conflicts involved in teen girl friendships. This book should have been right up my alley. My parents were still married, my best friend had been constant for over ten years, I'd never been seriously ill and no one close to me had died." "Not that I'm complaining, but my life up to the age of sixteen had been steady and unblemished.
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