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A review by kfriend
The Broken Puppet by Amo Jones
5.0
Strap up folks, cause we are back on the Amo crazy train, and I’m ready to crash right back into the delicious and devious world of those Elite’s. We’ve still got our broken heroine, grappling to find her footing in this Elite world and grasp the concept of the Silver Swan, we still have the dark and at times brutal attraction between Madison and Bishop, and we still have a bazillions secrets and twists- much of the book exposition here is unraveling all the mysteries still dangling in the ether post book 1. All we can ever rely on is that nothing is as it seems, and there are just as many lies and half-truths and secrets as there are honest revelations.
The pace isn’t quite as intense in this one, in part because Madison at times is just stubborn and because we’ve built up such a huge pile of questions that answering them feels a bit slower than I’d like- but we have lots of suspense and tension that sucks you in.
If you expect to have all the answers, or even have a clean/neat conclusion then you don’t know Amo- her worlds are not neat, they are not clean they are not even conclusive at times. That’s real- the real world is a bunch of grey. What we get is what Amo does so well- a dark and twisted world with a plot that almost seems circular it twists so much, flawed and damaged characters who resort to emotional tyranny and/or repression as they try to understand themselves and each other, and a dark, unsettling, and brutal attraction between our anti-hero and heroine. And, per usual, we’re left with more questions than answers- so on to book 3!
Also whoever does Amo’s covers needs a prize- cause they are always FIRE.
The pace isn’t quite as intense in this one, in part because Madison at times is just stubborn and because we’ve built up such a huge pile of questions that answering them feels a bit slower than I’d like- but we have lots of suspense and tension that sucks you in.
If you expect to have all the answers, or even have a clean/neat conclusion then you don’t know Amo- her worlds are not neat, they are not clean they are not even conclusive at times. That’s real- the real world is a bunch of grey. What we get is what Amo does so well- a dark and twisted world with a plot that almost seems circular it twists so much, flawed and damaged characters who resort to emotional tyranny and/or repression as they try to understand themselves and each other, and a dark, unsettling, and brutal attraction between our anti-hero and heroine. And, per usual, we’re left with more questions than answers- so on to book 3!
Also whoever does Amo’s covers needs a prize- cause they are always FIRE.