![]() ![]() As Caddy learns more about Suzanne’s past trauma and positions herself as the caring, understanding, shoulder-to-cry-on type of friend, she finds herself drawn deeper into Suzanne’s ongoing struggles. Wary of Suzanne at first, Caddy finds herself warming to Suzanne more so than anyone realized. As they start Year Eleven, a new girl, Suzanne, at Rosie’s school threatens to disrupt this dyad. ![]() In Beautiful Broken Things, Caddy and Rosie have been best friends going on a decade, despite attending different schools. Trigger warning in this book for discussions of physical and verbal abuse, anxiety, suicide. But I did, and Sara Barnard once again dazzled me with her ability to write characters steeped in empathy and compassion. I’m not sure I was in the best mood to read it. And that’s not to say that this one is bad, but there are moods for things. I don’t know-this one was just so good that I was reminded of how much I enjoyed the other, which I think is a much more heartwarming story than this one. Reading Beautiful Broken Things made me really want to re-read A Quiet Kind of Thunder. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |