This thriller is filled with pain. Pain that refuses to let go even after you've finished the novel. If you are searching for an all-consuming read that leaves you contemplating the outcome, The Broken Girls is worth your time. Set in two era's, 2014 and 1950, The Broken Girls tells the tale of broken girls and how one place can tie them together decades later.

If you are yet to read Simone St. James's works and are looking to start with one of her highest rated works, then check out this novel. It is a delectable read you will enjoy because of its fluidity, intrigue, and paranormal incorporation.

The plot of The Broken Girls is written with structure. It goes from viewpoint A to B to A to B and so forth without breaking flow allowing for a creation of a fluid story.

This is a slow-paced and enjoyable plot that will make you as a reader slow down and appreciate the in's and out's of characters and how mysteries from the past can still be unravelled in the present.

Good plot. Thumbs up!

I go more into depth in My Thoughts but the characters in The Broken Girls are my favourite. They are absolutely broken people whose pain is so understandable and realistic that you are immediately drawn to them.

Cece, Katie, Sonia, Roberta, and Fiona are all broken and their pain, ever so unique and warranted, seeps into your bones and makes you think "oh damn, that is awful." You feel for these characters and is why you should read this novel. These are characters to get lost into and root for - characters that make it worth your time.

The ending closes the chapter on Idlewild Hall. Unlike other thriller works, there is no sudden twist or BANG within the last few pages but instead a comfortable finish.

It is an ending that will make you happy you devoted your time to the novel. It is not an insanity riddled ending but not a forgettable one either. A solid ending to a solid book.

I enjoy Simone St. James's way of writing. I find her fluidity and ease of intertwining the past with the present highly enjoyable, so enjoyable that it leaves me craving more of her works.

I decided to read The Broken Girls because after finishing The Sun Down Motel, I knew I wanted more. Plus, I have an affinity for boarding school stories and The Broken Girls ticked two boxes for me. And guess what, The Broken Girls was exactly what I craved and I loved reading it. C'mon, a ghost mystery surreptitiously tied into the present? What a delightful snack this novel was to read.

The part I appreciated most about this novel was surprisingly not Idlewild Hall but the relationships Fiona had with others. They felt genuine and more powerful compared to other relationships you tend to read in thrillers. Fiona and her dad, Malcolm bonded further together because of grief and so did Jamie and Fiona. All of the main characters were searching for solace, looking for peace in a corrupt, evil, and haunted world. That is what I liked most about The Broken Girls, that the cracks were glue-able, always a part of the character but no longer stopping them from being whole.

The ending was insanity. Did anybody else suspect Garrett? I thought he was an arrogant man but not a manipulative sleaze bag and don't you just feel for Jamie? The Father he has looked up to for so longer, a corrupt and evil main. Painful.

Dang, these characters were broken and because of their pain, the ending was cathartic. Simone St. James does it again with The Broken Girls and I am stoked to read her other works.