The Broken Girls

 I waffled between a three and four-star review for this book. I ultimately landed in the middle as I didn’t love the ghost component of the story, and it didn’t quite seem on par with other books I have given a four-star review. I felt like it was a slow start, though that could have been more my reading mood than the book. Overall, I enjoyed the book and got particularly pulled in for the last third as things unfolded. I felt that the dual stories of murder, happening across decades, were done well. I enjoyed Fiona uncovering the details and answers to both girls’ untimely deaths. I was pleased that there was no twist in which her sister’s murderer was discovered to be someone new but that there was more to be known about the circumstances.

I loved the pieces of backstory we got for each of the girls attending Idlewild Hall. I would read an entire novel about that place with those characters; their early days, their time at the boarding school and even how their lives continued.