Thank you BookSparks #partner, for the finished copy of Broken Country in exchange for my honest review.
Back with the final book in the @booksparks Winter Reading Challenge. I have loved being an ambassador this season…& I hope you enjoyed the books I shared with you!
Publisher: Simon & Schuster / Simon & Schuster Audio
Published: March 4, 2025
Summary:
“The farmer is dead. He is dead, and all anyone wants to know is who killed him.”
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.
A sweeping love story with the pace and twists of a thriller, Broken Country is a novel of simmering passion, impossible choices, and explosive consequences that toggles between the past and present to explore the far-reaching legacy of first love.
My thoughts:
There’s a reason everyone has picked this one for its book club – it’s this month’s @reesesbookclub pick, it’s a @barnesandnoble book club pick, I’ve seen other online book clubs pick it – this one begs for discussion once you read it. There is just so much to unpack.
I love books like this – they are hard to pinpoint what genre they fall into, really crossing over into many and feeling like they belong in them all. It’s not an easy read by any means, but boy does it grab your attention and hold it all the way through. A family saga with mystery elements and a romance unlike anything other, this is one book that will definitely be staying with me. There’s a reason this book is everywhere and I can say the hype is real for this one! I don’t want to say much about the plot itself because I think you need to go into this one as blind as possible. Just know that the story is heartbreaking, the writing is gorgeous and the characters are written in such a way that you will be desperate to know all their secrets.
Audio thoughts:
I decided to listen to this one and had the most amazing experience. Hattie Morahan did such a fantastic job bringing this story to life. She infused just the right emotion into her voice as needed.
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