Broken by A.E. Rought
♦publisher: Strange Chemistry
♦release date: January 3rd, 2013
♦paperback, 320 pages
♦intended audience: Young adult
♦source: from publisher for honest review
A string of suspicious
deaths near a small Michigan town ends with a fall that claims the life
of Emma Gentry’s boyfriend, Daniel. Emma is broken, a hollow shell
mechanically moving through her days. She and Daniel had been made for
each other, complete only when they were together. Now she restlessly
wanders the town in the late Fall gloom, haunting the cemetary and its
white-marbled tombs, feeling Daniel everywhere, his spectre in the
moonlight and the fog.
When she encounters newcomer Alex Franks, only son of a renowned widowed surgeon, she’s intrigued despite herself. He’s an enigma, melting into shadows, preferring to keep to himself. But he is as drawn to her as she is to him. He is strangely…familiar. From the way he knows how to open her locker when it sticks, to the nickname she shared only with Daniel, even his hazel eyes with brown flecks are just like Daniel’s. The closer they become, though, the more something inside her screams there’s something very wrong with Alex Franks.
And when Emma stumbles across a grotesque and terrifying menagerie of mangled but living animals within the walls of the Franks’ estate, creatures she surely knows must have died from their injuries, she knows.
When she encounters newcomer Alex Franks, only son of a renowned widowed surgeon, she’s intrigued despite herself. He’s an enigma, melting into shadows, preferring to keep to himself. But he is as drawn to her as she is to him. He is strangely…familiar. From the way he knows how to open her locker when it sticks, to the nickname she shared only with Daniel, even his hazel eyes with brown flecks are just like Daniel’s. The closer they become, though, the more something inside her screams there’s something very wrong with Alex Franks.
And when Emma stumbles across a grotesque and terrifying menagerie of mangled but living animals within the walls of the Franks’ estate, creatures she surely knows must have died from their injuries, she knows.
Review: Horrifically wonderful. Broken is a haunting Frankenstein-like story that will intrigue you from the very start. A twisted tale of love, broken hearts, and shattered lives.
Emma
Gentry is a broken-hearted, emotionally absent girl trying to get
through life after the devastating death of her boyfriend, Daniel. Not
sure how she will finish her high school days, Emma finds herself
starting each day with a breve of coffee (us Americans call it a latte)
from the walk up window of the Mugz in Chugz as she reluctantly scuffs
off to school. But when Emma arrives at school one crisp chilly morning
everything is about change. There is a devastatingly new student, Alex
Franks, who feels just a little bit too familiar. From the moment their
eyes lock and Alex unlocks Emma’s locker, her life takes on a dramatic and
alarming new change.
Even
though Emma feels that she is slowly falling apart, Alex still finds a
way in to her everyday life, almost, in a way, haunting her days. The only
problem is the more she finds herself around Alex the more she finds
herself starting to live but also finds herself even more reminded of
Daniel---from Alex’s eyes that looks just like Daniels with their little
brown flecks in them to the way he can open her jammed locker and the
way he calls her by Daniels secret nickname. As time goes on, Emma finds
herself strangely attracted to him but also in fear of him. There is too much
wrong with Alex Franks to overlook, and the similarities between him
and Daniel are all too alarming. And Emma can’t help but constantly wonder
how can Alex remind her so much of her dead boyfriend Daniel?
Great review! I'm really intrigued. I haven't picked up a lot of horror, but I might have to try this one out.
ReplyDelete-Jenna
There are too few YA Horror books out there, in my opinion, so I am definitely going to have to pick this one up! I love it when a book has a ton of plot twists that I can't see coming, which is exactly what this book seems to have. It also sounds creepy, which I always enjoy. ;)
ReplyDeleteFantastic review! I can't wait to pick this book up now!