I wanted to love it but the storyline was so convoluted that it was almost impossible to follow I do not recommend it

At the halfway point, after a line scoffing at gender studies, I realized I had been continuously disagreeing with many assumed rights-and-wrongs that seeped through the narrative. SOOoooo, I looked up the author (not the animator/screenwriter) and learned we have fundamental value differences.

Setting that aside, this was a novel that may have been better as a short story. Many character situations/themes/emotions felt repetitive and flat by the end of the book. I did not find the story very compelling the further I listened and some scenes felt shallowly stereotyped. While it can be listened to in one day, I recommend not putting this high on your priority TBR list.

Many thanks to NetGalley and High Bridge Audio for gifting me an audio ARC of this thought-provoking book by Rebecca Sugar, wonderfully narrated by Sarah Welborn - 4 stars!

One family dealing with life's realities - illness and aging - and all coping in different ways. Patriarch Matt is recovering from surgery and has severe physical issues stemming from a long ago spinal cord injury. His childhood nanny, Mae, has always been a huge part of their family and she is dying, though still happy and hopeful. Matt's daughter, Mira, is the one who puts her life on hold to help her parents through this part of their lives, and dreads the inevitable phone calls, while her brother is very checked out of the situation.

This book will touch anyone who is going through similar issues and I totally related. It's not easy to watch those you love suffer. It's hard not to be resentful of siblings who don't help. And faith? Faith keeps you going. I thought this book was honest, realistic, and hopeful.

I absolutely adored this book. It was funny, warm and very genuine, so like a family. Navigating through her father's late stage in his life, is full of lessons. This sounds like it would be an incredibly sad book, yet it was sad but the messages were truthful, terrifying and incredibly honest. Rebecca Sugar embraced everything in this book like it was a warm hand that you were holding and not spun glass. It was very real, I loved this book!

Everything Is a Little Broken by Rebecca Sugar and narrated by Sarah Welborn will resonate with anybody who deals with chronic illness or that of a loved one. The humour, raw vulnerability and bravery within this audiobook is both heart-rending, relatable and inspiring

Sarah Welborn reads this audiobook beautifully. It was a short listen, but when I say I did not move aside from a cuppa, it means I was utterly rapt

Rebecca Sugar writes with a deep empathy and reminds us all that there is a person behind the illness that we see and that person wshould always been seen ahead of the illness. Written with real heart and expression, I absolutely loved this audiobook

Thank you to Netgalley, Highbridge Audio, the author Rebecca Sugar and narrator Sarah Welborn for this beautiful ALC. My review is left voluntarily and all opinions are my own

I enjoyed reading "Everything is a Little Broken" by Rebecca Sugar. As someone with aging parents, I could relate to the sense of anxiety but also Mira and her father's sense of humor in dark times. Incidents like her father firing an aide were very realistic. Some of the characters could have been built out a bit more, such as Mira's brother and daughter along with some family friends, perhaps requiring the book to be a bit longer or to remove them and make it shorter. I would have preferred to hear more about her family and less about observations about NYC declining. Religion plays an interesting role in the book as well. I appreciated the narrator. Thanks to NetGalley and HighBridge Audio for an advanced copy of the audiobook.

A wonderful book about a daughter and her relationship with her father. The characters are humorous, authentic, and endearing. The story brings you to their lives and how they handle the complex world they live in.

I want to thank NetGalley and the publisher for the audio ARC of this title in exchange for my honest review.

Reviewing the audio book can be very different at times than the physical book as the narration can effect your experience in many ways and I expect that the aggravating narrator made me enjoy this book less than I would have otherwise.

Her voice was grating and made the character of Mia sound completely condescending and whiny. It takes you out of the potential sweet sentimentality of dealing with aging parents and chronic ailments and their impact on one’s life, personality and over all being. It makes the prose sound vapid at times. Had I not been reviewing this book as an ark it may have been enough for me to DNF the book.

On a good note the book is very short. It clocks in at just over 5 hours of listening time and 197 pages of the regular book.
It definitely makes one think about their parents getting older as well as their autonomy as they do so. It makes you focus on the feelings one has during that later stage aging process as well as connection to siblings.

I liked the book over all. Had we been able to give partial stars I would have given it 3.5 ⭐️ but I rarely round up and I just can’t bring myself to do so in this case mostly due to the narration.

I may come back and add to this review as I sit on it but for now I’ll leave it there.

If you want a very quick read about the exploration of aging adults this is the book for you Just pick up the ebook or paperback/ hardcover and not the audiobook!

My rating system since GoodReads doesn’t have partial stars and I rarely round up.

⭐️ Hated it
⭐️⭐️ Had a lot of trouble, prose issues, really not my cup of tea (potentially DNF’d or thought about it)
⭐️⭐️⭐️ Meh, it was an ok read but nothing special
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Really enjoyed it! Would recommend to others
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Outstanding! Will circle back and read again

This kind of book isn't really up my alley in the first place, but it's been a while since I encountered such an unlikable protagonist. She is so full of herself and so convinced she's the only one in the world who knows anything about anything. Her saccharine patronizing attitude towards her father's Black friend is absolutely repellant and the way the story supports her in her self-aggrandizing martyrdom made me so mad. The way she talks about New York City, specifically the homeless population, was just horrifying. And if that wasn't enough, the flippant remark her husband makes to their daughter about not paying for gender studies classes (in a way the reader was clearly supposed to be charmed by) made this a pretty easy 1-star.