- Paperback: 160 pages
- Publisher: Tradewind Books (Oct 1 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1896580416
- ISBN-13: 978-1896580418
- Product Dimensions: 20.6 x 13.7 x 1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 240 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #222,690 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"A truly enjoyable novel."
-- Canadian Materials
-- Canadian Materials
"Broken presents us with Ash Perrault, whose refreshing adolescent voice teenage readers will be certain to identify with."
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Ash Perrault can explain why she's so upset: her dad's fiancee is moving into their house, her best friend Mouse is hiding a secret from her, she has detention on the school dance committee, and her relationship with Seth is confusing and often hurtful. But Ash can't explain why glass around her keeps breaking without her touching it. Her glass-breaking powers are not only strange they're dangerous. Can she find a way to control them?
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Broken, Aug 4 2009
By Runa "HPLunatic" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Broken (Paperback)
This has to be one of the most bland books I've read recently. The plot is slightly pointless--an outcast girl who is trying to make her way through high school finds that she breaks glass when she gets frustrated, without touching it. It attempts to mimic your typical Cinderella story, but fails miserably. The writing is jerky, as if reading from an overdramatic soap opera script. There is nothing compelling you to keep reading because nothing happens. At one point, Ash's father says that he didn't want her to break a valuable piece of glasswork that belonged to Ash's deceased mother, and I thought for a moment that that would go somewhere--maybe Ash's mother had the same glass-breaking ailment and her father knew about it? Nothing. The entire story is just disjointed--Harvey-Fitzhenry should have focused on either making it realistic or a fantasy, because instead, she's jarred a tiny fantastical element in a real world that sticks out really strangely and makes for an unpleasant, awkward read.
Rating: 1.5/5
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Two hours of my life I'll never get back., Dec 28 2009
By Samantha Clanton "HarlequinTwilight" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Broken (Paperback)
Everyone has felt broken at one point in their lives, some more broken than others, but broken none the less. Ash Perrault has felt that way since her mother died, but now her world is changing and she has every reason to be angry.
Her father's fiancée, Ella, is moving in, with her two daughters, Katie and Julia; Ash's best friend, Mouse, is keeping a secret from her; and Seth, the guy she is "seeing," is embarrassed to be seen with her. But on top of all that, she has the problem of glass breaking around her when she's not even near it.
Alyxandra Harvey-Fitzhenry has tried to make Broken a modern-style Cinderella story, but that attempt wasn't quite successful. The only character that was well developed was Ash, and the only character that was even enjoyable was Mouse. The rest just seemed like people to fill in holes of chaos in Ash's world.
Even Ash is kind of a cliché, aside from purple hair and 90s clothes, she is the outcast, art student who is misunderstood and gets in trouble. Seems like the typical teen angst novel. The writing is average at best and jerky at worst. Seth is the normal high school jock, at the top of the school, cheerleader ex-girlfriend. Ella gets called her stepmother, while Katie and Julia are called her stepsisters, even though the marriage hasn't take place yet (that just irked my nerves).
The storyline isn't even all that original, the outcast girl, she gets the football player (why are they always football players??), and she's tormented by the cheerleading mean girls. It seemed like the author watched Mean Girls (Lindsay Lohan/Rachel McAdams, movie we've all watched more than once, even if we won't admit it) and Clueless (Alicia Silverstone/Brittany Murphy, a movie every 90's kid has seen 100 times) way to many times. Honestly, who really says "as if" anymore?
I like the cover, the idea, and the fact that it was a really quick read, but the story was pretty bland and typical. Plus the fact that there wasn't really a resolution or even an explanation to the breaking glass thing, just really irks my nerves too. If there had been a resolution and better character development, then I could have gotten past the mediocre writing, but there was none of that.This may be something that other people like, but personally it's not my thing. I would rather count ceiling tiles than sit through reading Broken again...and that in my opinion is just bad.
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