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Sometimes I go into reading a book with such big hopes and yet the book can miss when it comes to plot, miss when it comes to characters, and miss when it comes to believability.
That is true of Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend.
The plot is farfetched: a Swedish woman comes to America to finally meet her pen pal only to learn her friend has died. Instead of returning home, the woman decides to open up a bookstore in her friend’s dying Midwestern town.
The characters are farfetched; romance betwee ...more
That is true of Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend.
The plot is farfetched: a Swedish woman comes to America to finally meet her pen pal only to learn her friend has died. Instead of returning home, the woman decides to open up a bookstore in her friend’s dying Midwestern town.
The characters are farfetched; romance betwee ...more
Mar 27, 2016
Deb (Readerbuzz) Nance
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Sometimes I go into reading a book with such big hopes and yet the book can miss when it comes to plot, miss when it comes to characters, and miss when it comes to believability.
That is true of Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend.
The plot is farfetched: a Swedish woman comes to America to finally meet her pen pal only to learn her friend has died. Instead of returning home, the woman decides to open up a bookstore in her friend’s dying Midwestern town.
The characters are farfetched; romance betwee ...more
That is true of Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend.
The plot is farfetched: a Swedish woman comes to America to finally meet her pen pal only to learn her friend has died. Instead of returning home, the woman decides to open up a bookstore in her friend’s dying Midwestern town.
The characters are farfetched; romance betwee ...more
Every once in a great while, a book comes along that is so captivating, so charming, and so intriguing, that the reader doesn't want to leave the book. The characters, the place, everything, is so perfect that you just want it to go on forever. This is such a book. What happens to Sara when she visits Broken Wheel, Iowa, is astounding to her, and to top things off, she finds love where she never expected it or even had it occur as a possibility in her mind. Sara is the perfect main character. Th
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