Review: Worth the read but predictable
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 31, 2014
Best Kind of Broken was an alright book for what it was. I thought there would be a bit more to it and I’m not sure why. I think 3 stars is pretty fair from my perspective because it wasn’t some amazingly original story but it wasn’t horribly boring either. The characters were likeable enough but they didn’t jump out at me. Pixie and Levi were very much stuck in their grieving for her best friend which was his sister but there were more they were grieving for along with it.What I didn’t like in the beginning was the fact that there was  a lot of tip toeing around what the actual issue was. While this is usually a good thing because it keeps the reader guessing and on their toes, I thought the hints of the scar and all the feelings were a bit much considering you don’t really find out what happened to make them so damaged until about midway through the book. It’s a huge deal and I feel for their situation but at the same time, they are all blaming themselves for something that couldn’t be helped and not really facing the issues that could be helped.The teasing with the electricity and the power was pretty funny, I will admit. I enjoyed that back and forth between Levi and Pixie. I think that some of the chapters were insanely short, some being only a couple paragraphs. However, considering it is from each of their POV I can see why it was necessary for some of it.I was hoping more would have come from Pixie’s mother because it was made into such a big deal what this woman did to Pixie when she was growing up that I was hoping for more than a couple of pages.All in all, this was a good book, one that I can see a ton of people enjoying and it could just be a small minority that I fit into in feeling that there wasn’t enough wow in the story for me to rate it higher.