Lauren Oliver always manages to write the most addictive books. She honestly does not get enough attention for her writing style. Her stories pull you in write from the first line and Broken Things certainly started with quite the opener.

“Five years ago, when I had just turned thirteen, I killed my best friend.
I chased her down and cracked her over the head with a rock. Then I dragged her body out of the woods and into a field and arranged it in the centre of a circle of stones I’d placed there with my other friend, Mia. Then we knifed her twice in the throat, and five times in the chest. Mia was planning to douse her body with gasoline and light her on fire, but something went wrong and we bolted instead.”

I loved Brynn and Mia’s characters. Both of them really evolved through the book. The more you learnt about them and their past relationship with Summer the more haunting the book became.

Excerpts from the book The Way into Lovelorn are scattered throughout the book, but they’re not overwhelming. With Rainbow Rowell’s Fangirl I found the Snow chapters far too long and I never bothered reading them as they didn’t affect the story, but the Lovelorn quotes really added to the story.

Even if thriller/mysteries aren’t really your thing I do recommend this purely due to the amazing writing.

3.5/5 Stars

There is a dark beauty to Lauren Oliver's writing that gets me every time- Broken Things is a melancholy, beautifully plotted tale of friendship and murder.

An obsession with a book that had no ending leads 3 friends down a dangerous path. One dies, the others are assumed guilty, years later they come together once more to try and discover the truth..

I love the way the author digs deep into her characters, peeling back the layers with huge insight. The mystery elements are clever and emotional, for once I did not fully predict the outcome.

Tense, atmospheric, often a little creepy, Broken Things was a wonderful if a little heart breaking read and I definitely recommend it.