ARC BOOK REVIEW: Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall
REVIEW:
Thank you to Netgalley and Simon & Schuster for the advanced readers copy of this book. I am leaving this review voluntarily and all opinions are my own.
What a beautiful and heart wrenching read. This book flips time frames from when the characters were young and in high school to when they are older, married and to a more current period where someone is on trial. The who is not given away until somewhere in the middle and the why as well.
There were definitely things I figured out before they were revealed to me but some that just left my jaw hitting the floor. Over the course of about a year two families lives will be shattered and a whole small rural town left reeling. Secrets are revealed, and scandal and rumors descend on the town that leave devastation and heartbreak in their wake.
There is so much loss and so much heartbreak in this book but also joy, the wonder of first love, the intimacy of a long relationship, and the sacrifices we make for love and for guilt. This book is well written and I couldn't put it down.
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Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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Beth and her gentle, kind husband Frank are happily married, but their relationship relies on the past staying buried. But when Beth’s brother-in-law shoots a dog going after their sheep, Beth doesn’t realize that the gunshot will alter the course of their lives. For the dog belonged to none other than Gabriel Wolfe, the man Beth loved as a teenager—the man who broke her heart years ago. Gabriel has returned to the village with his young son Leo, a boy who reminds Beth very much of her own son, who died in a tragic accident.
As Beth is pulled back into Gabriel’s life, tensions around the village rise and dangerous secrets and jealousies from the past resurface, this time with deadly consequences. Beth is forced to make a choice between the woman she once was, and the woman she has become.
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