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What I liked about Broken Glass Park:
The protagonist, Sascha, is an orphan. I love a book about an orphan. Indeed, the sentence that made me decide to like Love Walked In was “All of Clare’s favorite characters were orphans.” For I, too, love orphans. I dote upon orphans. Especially plucky orphans.
Sascha is a fantastic protagonist with a clear, honest voice that drew me into the story straight away. She’s tough, and she goes after what she wants, but not in an unrealistically sensible and fearless way. Which is to say: She plans to murder her stepfather when he gets out of prison, lovingly reviewing her options for poison, breaking bottles over his head, and so forth, but when a local newspaper writes a sympathetic article about her stepfather, and she goes to confront the author of the article, she is madly intimidated by the newspaper office. So right. Teenagers find it easy to make murder plans and hellishly difficult to navigate adult spaces. (At least I did. And so does Polly Whittaker in Fire and Hemlock.) (Er, I didn’t make murder plans as a teenager. The other half. Easily intimidated by having to interact as an adult with adults.)
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