I would say this is aimed at middle grade to young adult readers. We follow Ella, she's a doll and loves to dance and is visited by her beloved professor who looks after her. Ella can walk, talk and dance but she's never been outside and passes her lonely days in a dusty attic. One day the professor introduces another doll, unlike Ella this doll starts questioning their existence and the role of the professor. This starts of quite childlike and all quite a light read but becomes darker as the story unfolds. I enjoyed the story but I'm not it's target audience. I believe this is a trilogy, however I won't be continuing on with the others

Unfortunately I wasn't able to go through with this. I might come back someday.

I would like to thank the publisher and netgalley for providing me a free copy in exchange for an honest review.

A story about girls made up of dolls, with all the same type of complex teenage emotion in a tiny body. Ella is trying to get to know new doll Lisa but it's hard when Lisa seems to have a vendetta against her. The dolls have to figure out how to save their creator's granddaughter from being turned into one of them and being denied the life she should lead.

This was....fine. I found the writing a bit simplistic and childlike and I was definitely rubbed up the wrong way at the start with descriptions of Lisa's "gothness" and then comments about how she used to self harm which seemed to be a bit of a stereotype. The book in unique and does keep the reader guessing with lots of different twists and turns but I can't say I really enjoyed it and probably won't recommend it to others.

Broken Dolls was a book that I couldn't wait to read, but wait I did. After seeing a few bad reviews I wasn't sure I wanted to read it. I waited for the hype to die down and read it. I wish I had read it a bit earlier, but I will say the ending was disappointing. I wanted it to end with a bang like the rest of the book did. It's so unique the ending shouldn't have been amazing as well. That's my only complaint about it though. I really enjoyed this book.