Expected Release Date: December 29th 2015
Pages: 241
Age Range: Young Adult
Advanced Review Copy sent by publisher
A year and a half ago, Amanda Tart's brother got behind the wheel drunk and killed his best friend. Today, he's coming home from prison.
Amanda's been the one living with the fallout, made worse by her brother's recent unapologetic TV interview. People think he's a monster. Still, she loves him. It's her dark secret, until she starts getting close to Henry again--whose sister is paralyzed from the accident.
A year and a half ago, her brother destroyed his life. Now Amanda has to decide if she'll let his choice destroy hers.
I was very curious for this book and to the half of the book I actually quite liked the plot, but then it started to get a little pointless. After finishing reading it I really have no clue what the actual point of the story was, and the ending was just odd. I expected a big change in Jonathan in some sort of conclusion in the end but it was waiting for something that didn't happen. Amanda is the narrator and main character of the book but she also didn't made a great impression on me as a reader as her actions didn't have any result at all and where more some kind of happenings after each other without a clue.
The romance between Amanda and Henry was nice, but it was just as in many other YA novels I have read. It was somewhat forbidden but no one knows for sure why. The parents of Amanda and Jonathan where also a bit odd. I got the impression they all saw and watched what happened with Jonathan after he came out of jail, but they never did something about it.
I expected a lot more of What's Broken Between Us, but sadly the story and the characters just didn't make much sense to keep me interested as a reader.
