Breaking Beautiful - Reviewed by Maggie Devero

Breaking Beautiful by Jennifer Shaw Wolf

Reviewed by Maggie Devero

One day you wake up, and everything you know about your life had changed....but you can't remember any of it?

Allie wakes up in the hospital after being in a fatal car wreck, lucky to be alive. Only she doesn't feel all as lucky as she probably should; her boyfriend Trip was also in the same car when the accident happened and he did not end up surviving.  Overwhelmed with grief for her lost boyfriend, and anger at herself, Allie struggles to remember what exactly took place that evening that caused Trip to lose control of the wheel and send the two plummeting over the side of a cliff. But the real question is, does she even really want to remember? Or is it better off that the unpleasant series of events that took place that night are lost on her forever? Allie decides to do all she can to try to remember, as she slowly involves herself in the real world again, after a couple months or so, when the Pacific Cliffs Police Force reopens the case. They hound Allie, and her friend Blake for any information, that Allie is just unable to give them. Will Allie be able to heal over time, or with this torturous past haunt her forever? Read the book to find out!

I honestly didn't have much hope for this book when I first picked it up, but once I got into it a little bit it actually turned out quite to my liking! I was between giving it three and a four star rating, but I figured I'd be nice and since the plot was pretty decent I'd give it a four, since overall it wasn't too bad. When you first pick it up, it's a bit slow to start off, with the struggle Allie is facing of just getting out of bed and back into a normal life. But then it picks back up after a third of the way into it or so. The major twist of the storyline is easy to miss (like I did) but also really easy to pick up on if you're focused and intuitive, and it adds a nice change of pace to the story. The writing style was decent, and the characters were very individual and their development throughout the story helped it along. I liked the book! Four stars!