Very fast paced and very intriguing. I enjoyed how it kept me hooked and it was an original story. Nowadays so many books read the same. Highly recommend

She receives text, "I have something for you" from sis.
Then she shows up with a scared little girl (6) and then disappears.
Flashback to the mother making a game of cutting hair/dyeing it another color- getting her ready to leave her.
Switch between the sisters and the mother's point of view - get the entire feelings and history.

As she tries to keep her promise and both protect and help this little girl the struggle gets more intense.

I highly recommend!!
This book is both suspenseful and demonstrates how far a mother's love reaches.

This book kept me up late into the night needing to finish. At the heart of the book is a broken family. It is told by 3 different women, Quinn the little sister who is married to Walker, Nora the wild middle child who ran away from home right after graduation, and Liz their mom. Nora who is estranged from her family, sends Quinn a text that she is bringing her something to keep safe. When Nora arrives, it is Lucy a quiet little girl, Quinn has to keep safe. Nora won't tell Quinn a thing about Lucy, who she is or who she needs to keep her safe from. Add in Tiffany, Nora's best friend, and Tiffany's very scary boyfriend, it is a story that you need to keep reading to figure out all the secrets in this family. Can the women come together and protect Lucy who is counting on all 3 of them? It is a story of family, of love of family, and the things one will do to protect their family. Thank you very much to Nicole Baart, NetGalley, and Atria Books for providing me an ARC in return for an honest review.

Little Broken Things is a pretty good read. This is the first I have read by this author and look forward to read more by her in the future.

Wow! Wow! What an amazing book! I love to read a book that makes you feel real emotion and this book does just that! This novel is about a family who is broken from secrets. One of those secrets is a little girl named Lucy. This novel tells the story of how Lucy came to be. It is a story about relationships in families and what secrets do. This is a great book and I highly recommend for all to read!

I love Nicole Baart's writing. I love her word choice, the pictures she paints with her writing, the way her writing sounds when read aloud. Reading what she writes is an absolute joy, and she is one of only a few authors who get that type of accolade from me. Most of the time, the words are a medium, a way to get the story across--nothing more or less. I don't notice them unless the writing is, in my opinion, extraordinarily good like Baart's or extraordinarily bad (like many of the free/cheap ebooks on Amazon).

Unfortunately, as has been the case with some of her other books, I don't like the ending of this story. It just didn't seem realistic. Too many things had to happen just the way they did for everyone to get the happily ever after than they got.

One of the characters is a woman in her 50's, and while perhaps our social classes are different, and that accounts for the different lifestyle, I found things she did and the life she led to be more typical of women in my mother's generation than of women in mine (I'm in my mid-50's).

I'd like to thank the publisher for making a review copy available via NetGalley. Grade: B.

To begin with, I loved the premise for this book, so maybe I had my hopes set too high. As I was reading the first half of the book I found myself confused several times as the ages of the people didn't seem to fit, places didn't seem to fit and there were so many themes that I had difficulty figuring out where the different characters were coming from. For instance, there were several mentions early on of the family following reformed religion (though there was no indication of that by any of their life choices), then that theme was completely dropped and never mentioned again. Additionally, Liz's sudden "change of heart" seemed totally out of place. Quinn's infertility treatments did not seem to be handled very accurately and frankly, I think someone struggling with infertility could be hurt by the flippant way it was occasionally mentioned. I wasn't sure what the point of that theme even was until I read the "book club questions" at the end of the novel. Okay, so those were my first half feelings.

As I began the second half I found myself continually frustrated at how slow details were being revealed to the reader. It felt like every character in the book knew what was going on and I was left In the dark. However, since it certainly kept me reading I decided maybe that was just the writer's way of unfolding her mystery. By the time I was in the final quarter of the book I didn't care about the themes and how they applied nor who knew what, I just wanted to KNOW IT ALL and couldn't put it down. I'm still torn as to whether or not that could be described as good writing. The ending, however was fantastic, though I think it would have been better for the "little broken things" theme to run throughout the book so it didn't seem so pasted on at the end.

All in all would I recommend this? Yes, I just wish the writer could have been a little more select in choosing themes and either deleting them or developing them more fully and accurately.

Author - 1/2⭐️
Story - 1/2⭐️
Ending - 1⭐️
Offensiveness - 1⭐️
Recommend - 1⭐️

This was the first book I have read by the author. I am now a fan for life! It was like you were right in the book with the characters. I hilghly reccomend this book to anyone when it comes out this fall!!

I was given an ARC copy of this book in exchange for my review. I have read books by this author but I had a hard time getting into this book. The main character, Quinn, just came across to me like someone who was too dependent on others.

I gave up after a few pages. The writing style just seemed very, very bland to me.

I do love Liane Moriarty so that is what drew me into this book. It lives up to its hype. It is not Liane but great in its own way (which is even better!).

This was so confusing and just not good. I couldn't get into
It.

This book was exactly what I needed to get out of a bit of a "4-star" reading slump. I needed and wanted a book that I couldn't put down, didn't want to sleep just read, and that blew me away. Little Broken Things was just that!

This book was an emotional roller coaster,but it also kept me on the edge of my feet! This was the first book that I read from author Nicole Baart but it won't be my last!

Little Broken Things is an outstanding and finely layered novel with the perfect twists and turns to keep readers on the edge of their seats. This is the first novel I have read by Nicole Bart and it certainly won't be my last. I am eager to pick up more of her engrossing and evocative novels in the near future.

Great read! Looking forward to reading more by this author! Highly recommend!

Holy heck!!! Little Broken Things is PHENOMENAL! From the prologue I was loving Nicole Bart's writing style and before I was even done chapter 1, I was already looking up her prior books on Amazon (all the while asking myself how the heck have I never read any of her books before??!???). Seriously, I am kicking myself for not reading this brilliantly talented author before Little Broken Things-- silver lining is that now I have many books to look forward to diving into. Anyway, getting back to Little Broken Things, I don't want to rehash any of the plot for fear and of spoilers-- the blinder you go into this novel, the better! The book was perfectly paced and there wasn't any part that lagged. I started this book at 7:30pm thinking I would read a chapter or two and then call it a night. NOPE! I didn't put my kindle down until waaaaaay after my bedtime. I still hadn't finished, so as soon as I woke I grabbed my kindle and read until I finished (even forgoing coffee)!! I love when a book is so well written my mind conjures several conspiracy theories only to find out every one of my theories were wrong. Nicole Baart blew my mind with this mystery/suspense/women's fiction novel! Little Broken Things is a 5+++ star read and definitely on my 2017 favorites list--- a MUST READ!!

I received this from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This is the most incredibly written and frustrating story. The frustration comes from wanting to know more. The author managed to weave a story around a seriously broken family, a secret little girl, and a very dangerous man. I spent most of the time either holding my breath or fussing in frustration at Nora. Nora drops off this little girl to her sister Quinn with very little explanation. At first, I didn't trust Nora. As the story played I admired what she did and why she did it. Great thriller and absolutely Unputdownable!!!

For the past year, the only contact sisters Quinn and Nora have had is through is via email or texts, but them Nora shows up at Quinn's with a terrified child, telling her sister she must keep the little girl safe. Then she disappears leaving Quinn with the little girl, Lucy. Has Nora done something illegal, something terrible? Just how far should Quinn go to protect her sister and Lucy? I liked this story a lot, it's all about the fragile connections within families, and whether blood really is thicker than water