Rating: 3/5
Review:
Not a great addition to the series
I wasn’t all that keen on Never Be Broken. Sarah Hilary is a good
writer, but the reservations I have about this series as a whole are
rather greater for this episode.
Hilary is dealing
with important issues of knife crime and the use of children as drugs
couriers, but as a book this never really engaged me. Marnie Rome
takes something of a back seat and the book is largely about Noah
Jake – for me far too much about him personally at the expense of
the plot and the issues at stake. I have had a sense of this
imbalance in quite a few of the previous books, but here it really
did spoil things for me, I’m afraid.
I’m plainly in a
minority about this, but Never Be Broken didn’t really do it for me
and I won’t be rushing to read the next in the series.
(My thanks to
Headline for an ARC via NetGalley.)
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