by Susan Jane Bigelow
Very interesting world. The US lost the world war and a fascist regime rules now. New York is interesting- no sky scrapers anymore, no building is more than 4 stories (or it was something like that). Yankee Stadium is gone. There are superheros (extrahuman) and aliens in the mix. I liked the ch...
This starts of with the typical enough boy in-over-his-head then gets more interesting with each introduction. Where ‘Broken’ is as Broken does and then yet another ‘Extrahuman’ (superhero in other words) behaves just as you’d think *read: full of himself*. Better though is the there being no need t...
Since 2011 seems to be the year of dystopian novels, I expected Broken to fit into the cookie-cutter format that I am beginning to see emerge. What I didn't expect was how Broken pretty much avoided all the stereotypes to give a unique take on dystopian / science-fiction reads and superheroes.. all ...