Amy 
women's fiction
The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend was a cute novel I
read for my book club. The premise is
entirely contrived and unrealistic.
However, I let myself go with it and enjoyed it. Sara, a reclusive bookworm from Sweden, travels
all the way to Broken Wheel, IA, USA to meet a long-time pen pal, Amy. However, upon her arrival, she finds out from
the town’s residents that Amy has just died.
Despite this, they want her to stay in Amy’s house.
Admittedly, the characters are all a bit too small-town for
my taste and they’re a bit sad for sticking around a dying town, but they have
spunk and were quirky enough to make it interesting. And, hey, different strokes for different
folks. Live and let live. So, accepting that they choose to live in
Broken Wheel, this was a feel-good story about lonely people coming together
despite themselves and the joy of a stranger bringing a little life to a tired
town and its residents.
I didn’t like the title—the (extremely reluctant) readers in
town never made recommendations to anyone—and I also didn’t appreciate the
forced conflict near the end of the novel with Gavin. The first-time author, Katarina Bivald, also had some other problems like listing a few characters minimally
early in the novel and then assuming the reader would remember them later. (I had to use my Kindle search feature to
remind myself who they were.) But, the main personalities were charming and I
couldn’t help pulling for the characters and thinking of them fondly. Plus, I enjoyed all the “book love” in the
story.
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