I don't know why I requested this book in the first place. Sadly it had WAY too many triggers in it for my liking.

This story sounded so interesting, but it turned out to be quite odd. I definitely wanted a bit more from this book, but it was a decent read.

This book was different than I expected. A little odd and did not keep my interest. I may have enjoyed this more in a different mindset.

My thanks to NetGalley and Macmillan Children's Publishing Group for an eARC copy of this book to read and review.

Let's start with I DNF'd at 48%. I read other negative reviews and realized that I wasn't going to receive a pay-off from the ending explaining any of the questions I had about the book, so I decided to stop. I disliked the characters, adults and youth, male and female and the whole Catholic Saint thing with the stigmata was confusing. Was this a dig against Catholic religious fanatics? Was this a dig at the modern world that didn't have room for saints and religion and faith? I had no idea. Apparently the books didn't either.

This seems to be a cross between the Virgin Suicides and 13 Reasons Why. I didn't enjoy the first book and didn't want to read the second, so not a good combo for me. At first, it seems the girls did it because their father was too over-protective, but then the whole "older sister having mystical powers and getting the stigmata on her hands" thing makes what the father did make more sense, he was trying to protect them from becoming media freaks. He may not have gone about it in the best way, but there was a reason for his behavior at least. The younger daughter, Mira, left notes for her star-crossed love Ben, the MC, in all of the places where they touched, all seven of them. She started his note hunt by sending him a letter in the mail, with cryptic directions. Then the notes explain NOTHING except to confuse the MC into thinking that the sisters were being abused by their father. Possible, but not shown in the flashbacks told from the girls' POVs, so unless it was shown after 48%, not probable.

There were a LOT of things that are trigger-y in this book. Anorexia, child molestation, animal violence (I didn't get to that scene by 48%, but apparently the love interest of the MC smothered a kitten. For no reason. NO thank you.), suicide, finding a parent dead in bed from accidental/suicidal OD, unaddressed mental health issues, etc.

Ok, the mental health issues... I give the mother of the MC props, when she found out her son had been molested, she had him in therapy. Negs to the book, it isn't gone into huge detail, but it and talking about his issues, is poo-pooed by the MC quite a bit.

All of the characters seemed to not be thinking overly rationally, which leads me to my thought that the entire little town was suffering from heavy metal/industrial toxin poisoning in the water. One of the favorite places for the local kids to hang out was the watering hole in the quarry. The MC tells the reader his mother told him that the metal plant/big industry that was a part of the town and then went under, used to use the watering hole to dump it's liquid waste. It's even described as having this oily sheen to it's surface. So of course all the kids jump and swim in it. Despite the dead bodies found in it, the fact that junk is under the water and that there are industrial toxins in it. The parents know it exists, the two girls of the title are found drowned in it, but do they do anything to prevent the kids from being able to get into it? Nope.

So from how the kids of the town were all messed up makes sense, the adults? I'm guessing the water in the quarry must have leached into the ground water somehow, that's the only thing that I can think of that would explain their poor judgment and actions.

Now, for the characters. Sigh, none were likable. Well, Eddie wasn't too bad, but we didn't see much of him other than his grief at losing his sister and two cousins.

Francesca, the older of the two sisters, had mystical powers. She had two birds that followed her everywhere that she went. She could read a person's soul by listening to their heartbeat. She knew ancient, dead languages without studying them. And then she got stigmata on her hands. She had an obsession with the Catholic Saints and thought she was one too. She didn't eat, didn't "need" to. She wanted to be so thin that one could see her heart beat through her skin, as many Saints did, so all could see their heart beat for the Lord. She wanted to show the teacher she had a crush on that it beat for him. She was considered "good" by all who knew her, but she only went to volunteer at the soup kitchen to be seen as good and had nothing but contempt for those who were there. The fat guy was obviously not in need, he was fat and gross and ate second helpings. The druggies were about her age, but she ignored them and them she. She wanted to impress her adult crush who was the church's youth minister with her holiness and stigmata, but didn't want to tell anyone other than her family and him. She and the other females in her family all were fixated on "mia sangre", or their blood relations. That they were there for one another, but she wasn't very nice to Connie, her cousin, who really looked up to her.

Mira, the younger sister of Francesca the saint, was DARK. She had all of these dark thoughts, like of hurting others and animals and she apparently acted on those thoughts when she smothered a kitten (didn't get to that part, but many other reviews cite it, and since she had those dark thoughts earlier in the book, I am inclined to believe them.). She was the one who found her mother dead in bed from an accidental/suicidal OD of alcohol and sleeping pills. She was her sister's self-appointed caretaker, which probably didn't help her mental outlook on anything, but she was also fixated on the whole "My Blood" thing. I also intensely dislike her for playing the cryptic letter and note game with Ben. If she knew what she and her sister were going to do and wanted him to know the truth, why not just write ONE letter with the entire truth in it, rather than a little treasure hunt with equally cryptic notes?? I guess if she did that, the book would be half the length it is or less, but honestly? I don't think that would have been a bad thing. Tighter plotting, less unnecessary scenes, maybe more focus on the families hurting from their losses, maybe actually go into why Francesca was having these mystical things happen to her. Maybe even address Ben's molestation in a way that was realistic and respectful.

Which brings me to Ben. His father and Mira's father had a falling out, so he and she were like Romeo and Juliet ala the warring families. They had a "secret" romance that Mira ended abruptly, also cutting out everything else in her life, other than "My Blood", when her cousin Connie died from an allergy attack/asthma attack. It sounded like asthma, but she had an EpiPen, so not quite sure what that was about? Anywho, Ben was heartbroken and to honor her dying wish, he is hunting down all of these notes she left for him, trying to figure out what the heck happened and why. He was also a victim of abuse from a prior coach when he was younger. The entire town knew about it by this point in the book, but the reader doesn't know much about it. His name was on a list of others who were abused, but nothing is mentioned about them. Were they local too? How are they dealing with it? Was he aware of them being abused too? From other reviews, it seems that some in the town had suspicions of what was going on, but it took a long time for anyone to act on those suspicions. But due to his prior abuse, he suspects the girls' father might have been abusing them, since they were so sheltered and eventually killed themselves via drowning in the quarry waterhole. He knows nothing about the stigmata, etc, because none of the notes are clear about ANYthing. So when he confides in the youth minister Mr. Falso about it, he is warned off from saying anything because the father was too powerful and it wouldn't look good if Ben said anything about the girls' father, it would look like retaliation for what he did to Ben's father. (Apparently Mr. Cillo, the girls' dad saved a lot of people financially in the town when the big industry left. He was the bank manager or something. He diddled on his taxes and Ben's dad notified the IRS about it. The town was not pleased. Not sure what happened from it, but Bad Things that aren't told to the reader by 48%.)

Which brings me to Mr. Falso. All of the kids in town, I mean ALL of them, are enthralled by this guy like he's the Pied Piper and it's because he TRIES to be all chummy chummy with them. He's "Mr. F", The "F-Man", etc., and tries to get them to trust him and he works with them, taking them to the soup kitchen to volunteer, out camping/stuff like that. The girls are all half in love with him and Francesca was one of those girls who was into him. The adults of the town also loved him and despite not being from there, he was new, they all took to him.

Which makes me wonder about the adults in that town. After having one coach who liked to abuse kids, did NO warning bells go off about this guy?!? Granted, from what the reader can see, he didn't hurt the kids, but it strikes me as odd that he seems to try SO HARD to connect with the kids, to be cool, to be the one they go to when they have problems. It sounds like predator grooming to me, or at least kind of odd. You're telling me that not ONE adult in the community thought it was a tad strange? Add to that the fact that he was a Youth Group Leader for the Catholic church and while being a leader in the Catholic church does not mean that one is also a child abuser, it unfortunately has that connection.

So the only explanation I have for how any of the characters acted is industry toxin exposure via the watering hole. That could have been a good and topical twist. Instead, we have... I don't know what we have. Something that makes no sense and from what I understand, won't make any sense by the end either.

I probably read this wrong. I do that. The positives of the book are that it is very dramatic and has an interesting hook. I wanted to read to the end to find out what happened, but I tend to read bad reviews and spoilers so if it's not worth getting to the end for me, I DNF. Too many books, not enough time to read them all. From what I could tell, the mysteries in this book aren't explained, the characters do horrible things and nothing is really resolved. So I threw in the towel at 48%.

I feel that I read enough to judge this book via a star rating, so 1 star it is. I really didn't like it and while I wouldn't tell someone not to read it, neither would I recommend it. There is a book for every reader and while it was not my book, it very well may be yours.

This was a strange one. Almost felt like a writing experiment that just didn't end up working for me. Like maybe I wasn't deep enough to get it. DNF at 45 percent.

I was intrigued by the description of this book, and it certainly delivered what it promised, but it just didn't quite get me totally invested in the characters. I felt Ben was dealt with well, but very few other characters became anything more than cardboard cut outs that Ben interacted with (or thought about). The story felt like it was going to build to something major, but never quite got there.

Free copy given in exchange for an honest review.

This is a book I recommend to my teen readers. I have quite a few who love challenging reads that dark and mysterious and that look hard and deep in the secrets we can keep. What a read. And the title and cover? Well done.

This one is pretty dense to read, better for stronger readers.,

Such an interesting concept. Totally something I'd recommend to my students.

I received this book for free from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.

Man, these girls were broken long before anyone even died.

Two sisters lead a completely sheltered life and when their promiscuous cousin dies, they seemingly commit suicide by drowning in the local quarry pool shortly afterwards. The younger sister, Mina, left several notes to her ex-boyfriend explaining why they died but in a convoluted way she hid them in places where he touched her, including adult bedrooms, which is weird, so the ex (Ben, by the way, and our sad little hero) has to set off on this strange little quest to break into places to find these notes and find out why the sisters died.

The biggest question that kept me going in this book was why? Why did the sisters act this way, wh did the whole town lust after them, why were they basically shut-ins with no technology allowed in their house and a control-freak dad who called every hour on the hour to make sure they weren’t, I don’t know, screwing around? Why did the beloved cousin die, and why did it have this weird effect on the sisters? Why was Mina so cruel and Francesca so confident (arrogant?) about how special she was?

Basically, because Francesca suffers from stigmata she thinks she should become a saint and so she volunteers at a soup kitchen where she passes horrible judgment on everyone and manages to convince herself that the youth pastor will fall in love with her once he only figures out how special she is. I’m not sure what she wants from the youth pastor, Mr Falso. Does she want to screw him or just his spiritual approval? It really smacks me of the whole ‘women as evil seducers’ because this skinny, starving herself teenage girl wants more from an older man when Ben (remember Ben, the actual main character in this novel?) was actually sexually assaulted by his old coach, not that he remembers it, and in fact the only evidence anyone has to go on is a entire list the coach made of kids that Ben happened to be on. What happened to the other kids on the list? Why is Ben singled out and made a fuss of years later over something he doesn’t even remember? Anyway my point is that underage girl + older man = girl is seducer but underage boy + older man = boy is victim.

Anyway,Francesca is pretty awful, she’s so convinced she has magical powers that it leads to complete tagedy. Meanwhile, Mina is casually cruel throughout the book and even murders a helpless tiny kitten just for shits and giggles, so neither girl is really one I found anything redeeming about.

And Ben’s drive to find the truth behind the girls is largely misguided and supposed to be based on his own backstory.

Look, this book was just weird. True, I did find all the Catholic stuff pretty interesting because I was raised Catholic then left the Church when I realised God doesn’t exist, but Ben having the break into places and find notes left behind where Mina had had to do the exact same thing months before to leave them there? And the fact that their suicide was clearly planned because of these notes brings up similarities to Thirteen Reasons Why, which I couldn’t even finish because it seemed to be about a girl who just couldn’t handle being a girl, and it seems that Beautiful Broken Girls also was about girls who just couldn’t handle being girls, and although parts of the book were interesting, other parts struggled to hold my interest, and it’s not really a subject I’m that interested, the weakness of women, I mean.

And the ending just didn’t make any sense to me, and I have thought about it a lot since I finished the book and I still don’t get it.

A fairly decent young adult novel, which will definitely appeal to the readers who like something dark, mysterious and, to be honest, with an ending that leaves you asking 'what just happened?' The plot is confusing in parts to say the least, although there are nuggets of interest there if you persevere - just don't really look for a fulfilling, satisfying ending as you will be disappointed. There are so many different paths going on at the same time, with many just left hanging and never really tied up, it is likely to tie you in knots and leave you like that - if that is the kind of novel that holds your interest, you will enjoy this for sure.
The plot like has some intriguing aspects and shows some promise, though there are a lot of dark themes underlying the plot: suspected child abuse; eating disorders; mental illness to name just a few...
The characterisation varies throughout - Ben, the main narrator/protagonist, is developed well on the whole, and he is likeable enough, though some of his actions are left unexplained and cause some frustration; conversely, the sisters of the title, the 'Beautiful Broken Girls', Mira and Francesca Cilla are less likeable and just never really hold the interest or the empathy of the reader. The narrative is told from a range of perspectives, including Mira and Francesca's in parts, but they seem two-dimensional and bland, nothing like the appeal they allegedly hold for everyone around. They fail to capture the attention for the reader and their actions are often left unexplained and just downright pointless.
The novel is a quick read and the language choices and authorial writing style are engaging enough, but it does take some persevering in terms of plot and characterisation - and don't look for a fulfilling ending as it doesn't have this.

TW: Suicide, Depression, Anxiety, Molestation (?!?!?!?)

Thank you to the publisher for the galley of this book. It was exchanged freely for simply an honest review.

Here’s where we get honest.

I whimsy requested this. I was searching for something soul searching and something heartbreakingly real. What I got was something that made me never want to step into a church ever again. I may not practice Catholicism a lot since high school for many reasons–but I still hold a lot of faith in my religion. And fuck, y’all, this made me doubt everything I have learned (in a bad, I have anxiety kind of way). And I know a *lot* about my faith.

Savage had the characters romanticize everything from abuse, to suicide, to being rude to anybody not conventionally beautiful or acceptable.

( I’m not a fan of 13 Reasons and I have suggested this to a lot of the fans and lo and behold, the few that picked the book up were insta in love with it. )

This book left me empty and feeling worthless and honestly, not wanting to touch anything. Which is a fucked up way to leave someone. Especially, someone who has, I don’t know, school books to read and manuscripts to write and all of that fun stuff (LIKE PAPERS).

Sure, Savage seems to have a beautiful prose style.

I just happen to not want it anywhere near me. Please, thanks. Bye.

I don’t want to talk about the plot all too much. I just want to…distance myself and leave this as a warning for anybody else who is prone to letting themselves become too involved emotionally in the things they read. But the trigger warnings are there to be safe for all of y’all.

I’m not rating this.

But I’m leaving this sort-of review here.

The Good Bits: Review

To preface this review, I want to let you know that I was given this copy of Beautiful broken Girls courtesy of Netgalley and Farrar, Straus and Giroux in exchange for my honest review.

I have also read another book prior to this one by Kim Savage (After the Woods), and so knew a bit about what I was getting into. That being said I don't know how to feel about this book.

Objectively, Speaking:

This book achieves the feelings of a dark, twisted, psychological thriller. While reading, it is hard not to second guess, not one, but ALL, characters' sanity. At first Ben seems to be sound of mind and spirit and simply dealing with the death of a close friend and his girlfriend. As the story moves forward though more of Ben's past is revealed and you can see him losing his grip on reality, but it isn't entirely his fault. This book reminds me of 13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher, in that Ben's Kind-of-ex-GF, Mira, one of the "Beautiful Broken Girls" has sent him a letter to arrive post-death leading him on a path to collecting messages that she has left behind for him to find. So it is reasonable to assume that Ben isn't feeling his best during this book. Savage masterfully leads us into this dark spiral that happens to Ben. I felt his confusion, anger, depression.

What was interesting about Ben, is that while we learn about him and his life and most importantly, his past, we don't just get a better idea of who he is, but also who the girls were. Savage managed to show how, while these girls seem to be perfect on the outside, almost seen as holy figures in the community, they were not so perfect behind the scenes. The relationship between the sisters is extremely unique and had me thinking "Whyyyyyyyyy?"

Overall the tone of this book is probably what I would say was the strongest factor to this book. The story comes together, note by note, weighing heavier and heavier on the main character. The feel is dark and depressing and considering that the book begins at the end with the discovery of the girls bodies, you know that this one isn't going to end happily.

I would recommend this book to individuals who have that flare for the dark side, who like to delve into the depths of the mentally unsound and understand that it won't be pleasant. That being said...

A More Subjective Take on Things

When putting in my ratings for Goodreads, I always feel conflicted. Perhaps it is because of the way the rating system is set up, with one star being that I did not like it, two being it was OK, three being liked it and so on. Perhaps this is because I equate the start system with a grading system and don't necessarily feel comfortable giving a book a "D" or an "F," especially when it is so subjective.

I ended up giving this book one of the lowest ratings that I have ever given a book on Goodreads. It was heartbreaking because I absolutely loved Kim Savage's last book, After the Woods. When I saw that she had come out with this one I requested it immediately, expecting the darkness, expecting the edgy not-quite-sane feeling of her writing. I knew what I was getting into! This one, however, I cannot close and say "I liked this."

A pet peeve I have when it comes to books is that they should be final products, and ready to read. That means, that there aren't huge noticeable glitches in the grammar or the storyline. I get that writers can be free with their grammar to an extent, and I also understand that this book was a pre-finalized copy. I checked a publish copy, just to make sure, but I still found the same issues, and that was that there were two places where I got hung up in the story because there was an apparent error in the timeline or it was confusing.

This happened in two particular places and were enough for me to rate the book lower because of this issue. The first came during a scene where Ben visits the house of the cousin to the Beautiful Broken Girls. Now this could have been an issue on my side of things, where I just didn't understand, but this being a YA book, I would be concerned that younger readers would get more confused than I did. It was extremely unclear during this scene that the cousin and his family did not live in the same house that the girls had lived in. It was a minor part, and didn't wreck the story on its own, but it hurt my head when it happened and caused me to reread way to many times.

The second time that I had an issue was with an inconsistency when Ben meets a friend at his job and the friend says that it has been quite a while since they had seen each other, referencing an incident that had occurred during that meet. However, that was not the last time that they had met... and it was only in the chapter right before this one that it had happened. Again, it doesn't make or break the book, it just made me hiccup in my reading process and pulled me out of the story and focus on that feeling of "What did I miss???"

These issues aside I still would not have given such a low rating if the experience of reading the book had not turned me off so strongly. I just found that I did not enjoy the characters, the darkness, the way the story unraveled. It wasn't enough to make me quit the book, but I can't say that I loved it either. By the last part of the book, it was getting so dark that I almost quit, except that I knew that if I did the recovery time to get over the story and its affect would be massive and so I stuck it through. That helped but there were a few moments that were just so dark, they tore at me, and not in the good way.

So I will leave this review saying that it isn't a bad book, I just didn't love it and would suggest making sure you are into this kind of book before getting into it. Because of this, I say it is ok, 2 stars.

I’m torn on this book. Some chapters enthralled me and kept me going while others I wanted to skim past. Two sisters commit suicide and the town is reeling, especially after the death of their cousin only weeks prior. One of the girls, Mira, leaves notes for Ben, a boy that loved her, so he can discover why they did what they did. Due to bad things happening early in Ben’s own life he starts to misinterpret Mira’s notes and starts to unravel from her death as well has his own storied past. This book was just kind of… weird. It just fell flat for me overall in the end.

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Well, I'm done with whatever that was. This is the second time that Kim Savage leaves me baffled. I think she tries to make things so shocking that sometimes it translates to readers and other times it doesn't. I honestly thought the story was going to end differently. These girls are BROKEN to the max. I was in a very confused state of what? after reading this. I wanted to process it a little more before I wrote a review but I still feel lost.

Ben is our main character and he is written extremely well. I feel like I got into his mind. Something I have to admit is that although Savage's book can get crazy - she knows how to write. I just don't know what to make of her books when I'm done with them. That's a sort of compliment. If you've read this or After the Woods you would know what I meant. Any who, back to Ben. Ben has a lot going on with him. There are things from his past that come up not including the person he loved writing notes about why she and her sister killed themselves. He also starts dealing with things that happened to him as a child. Ben was in love with Mira. Mira started retreating from everyone including him after the death of their cousin and no one knows why except the two sisters. Francesca also started retreating but her and her sister? VERY different people.

As Ben starts finding more and more messages he starts losing himself. While that is happening flashbacks of him with Mira as well as the sisters progression to their deaths are intertwined within the story. You can not guess right now what was going on with the sisters because it is so left field that I still don't understand it. If you constantly want to be in a state of what is going on? boy is this the book for you. It all circles around to Francesca. Francesca doesn't like Ben. Ben doesn't really care for her either but Mira does. She's concerned for her well being but no one in the family talked about what was going on so Ben's mind starts going around the possibilities.

There is no doubt in my mind that Savage can write an incredible story that will keep you guessing. For some reason the ratings on this book are low on Goodreads. I rated it three stars myself because it was even more confusing than the last book which is good and bad. I love this story to an extent. I don't want Savage's writing to change by all means because her endings remind me a little of Robert Cormier who is amazing. I just wish she could be a little more clear.... but also I don't! There's a balance that needs to be met. I just can't describe anything correctly with her books. I do know I will continually look for more of Savage's writings because she's amazing and messes with my head. Although, I've been very contradictory towards my review of this book I do recommend reading it especially if you are looking for something out of the ordinary.

Beautiful Broken Girls will leave you guessing what's real and what's not.

This book is just not for me. I don't know exactly what I expected.

Yep, the title got me. I haven't read this author before.
It's slow, but I can cope with slow when it's steady. There lies the problem, this book broke down a little. Maybe that was intentional like the title. I'm not sure, but it didn't work so well for me. It was a bit disjointed, and all my questions weren't cleared up or answered. That's not at all fair, if there isn't a sequel with answers ready to read. While the topics were difficult ones, they were covered and it did have some twists, just not all the answers I sought.

My copy came from Net Galley. My review is my own, as are my thoughts about this book, and I leave this review because I am able to do so.

Beautiful Broken Girls by Kim Savage is a young adult mystery novel surrounding the horrifying death of the Cillo sisters after they were found at the bottom of the quarry. No one knows why Mira and Francesca drowned – was it an accident or a suicide? Shortly after their bodies are discovered, Mira’s boyfriend Ben receives a letter from her in the mail. This letter is the first in a series of notes that Mira left in all of the places Ben touched her during their relationship. Ben must hunt down these letters to solve the mystery of the Cillos’s death. What follows is an extremely creepy and captivating novel that I absolutely loved.

I was instantly hooked by Savage’s writing style, and flew through this book in a few short days. The story is extremely fast-paced, and I really enjoyed the treasure hunt aspect of this story with Ben trying to find Mira’s letters as soon as possible. Savage does an excellent job at creating a mysterious and ominous vibe. Even the letters that Ben finds are written so cleverly! I could never predict where the story was going, and that added to my enjoyment of the book.

I will say that I know this story is not for everyone. If you like books with a solid conclusion, Beautiful Broken Girls is not for you. In fact, I read many negative reviews of this book, and nearly every one mentions the open ending. For me, this ending was absolutely perfect for the novel. Not only does it add to the mystery, but it allows the reader to think of all the possible outcomes. What really happened? What didn’t? These loose ends only made me think about this book more and appreciate the rereadability of the story.

Moreover, I do question why it was necessary for Ben to be a survivor of sexual abuse. While this does play into the plot a bit, the story would still hold up without this storyline. Plus, the details surrounding this event are quite iffy. Ben mentions more than once that he never remembers the sexual assault happening, and that his name was just on a list. Thus, while I appreciate the author’s attempt to show the lasting effects of this trauma and how the survivor is treated in society, this storyline felt a bit out of place in the book for me.

Similarly, even though I loved the open-ending, I do wish we got more information about a couple things. Namely, the youth pastor, Mr. Falso, who plays a very important role in Beautiful Broken Girls. He is talked about less and less as the book goes on, and readers never get to find out what he does with the information he collects. I would also love an epilogue with the printing of a certain article, but I will leave out the details so as to not mention spoilers.

My only other critique is that I did find a plot hole in the book. In one scene, Ben mentions that he hasn’t seen his friend since a fight broke out earlier in the book. However, this friend was in another scene after that fight. I did not consider this minor plot hole when rating this novel, as I read an advanced copy and do not know if it was fixed in later editing.

Otherwise, I think Beautiful Broken Girls is a great mystery story that deals with interesting topics I don’t read a lot about in young adult literature. I could relate to the Italian family heritage discussed in the book, and perhaps that is why I felt a strong bond with the characters. This book is unbelievably sad, and my heart especially goes out to Mr. Cillo. I can’t imagine what he is feeling as this book comes to a close.

In the end, I absolutely loved Beautiful Broken Girls, and I definitely recommend it if you are looking for a creepy mystery. Keep in mind that this book deals with serious topics, including sexual abuse, self harm, suicide, and more. However, this story provided me with a lot to think about, and the fast-pace kept me hooked from beginning to end. I am very interested to pick up Kim Savage’s other books, and hope to do so in the future!