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Broken: Part 2: High School
“Broken” is a character study spanning 10 years in the life of a growing boy. It delves into his mind and personal thoughts from third grade through the end of high school, examining how he confronts his adolescence and all the harsh changes that come with it. It’s a story of friendship, acceptance, growing up, and the gradual loss of innocence, taking a brutally honest look at how he navigates through a chaotic world that he can’t quite seem to figure out.
In “Part 2: High School,” Joey Wood dives a step further into the vaunted world of high school. Kids are even nastier, and Joey struggles to find any new friends or deepen his relationship with his crush, Roxanne Bareno. All seems mundane until he finds out that his childhood best friend Marion Collins is going to attend his high school.
He’s reluctant about this at first, remarking at how much she’s changed since they were eight years old and running around the playground together. But he soon begins to develop a much stronger connection to her than he anticipated, and he ends up becoming closer to her than he ever could have imagined. While still clinging onto the past and thinking back to a time when everything was simpler, Joey falls deeper and deeper into a pit of obsession and self-hatred. School gets harder and sucks all the creative juices out of him, while his determination to get as close to Marion as possible dominates his thoughts and motivations.
This is a tough read about letting go of the past and finding beauty in the present, even if it’s not how you envisioned it. It’s a story of moving on, and coming to terms with yourself and the fact that not everything is sunshine and rainbows. It’s a lesson about the natural changes that occur while we grow up, and how tough these can be to deal with and accept — changes both within ourselves and the people closest to us.
This book is dark, raw, and unfiltered, pulling no punches in exploring the psyche of a confused and flawed but well-meaning young person. As the reader, you experience everything from Joey’s perspective — all the highs and all the lows. It’s an important, authentic exploration of a growing mind, and a read you won’t ever forget, written by Mojo Hill between the ages of 17 and 19.
In “Part 2: High School,” Joey Wood dives a step further into the vaunted world of high school. Kids are even nastier, and Joey struggles to find any new friends or deepen his relationship with his crush, Roxanne Bareno. All seems mundane until he finds out that his childhood best friend Marion Collins is going to attend his high school.
He’s reluctant about this at first, remarking at how much she’s changed since they were eight years old and running around the playground together. But he soon begins to develop a much stronger connection to her than he anticipated, and he ends up becoming closer to her than he ever could have imagined. While still clinging onto the past and thinking back to a time when everything was simpler, Joey falls deeper and deeper into a pit of obsession and self-hatred. School gets harder and sucks all the creative juices out of him, while his determination to get as close to Marion as possible dominates his thoughts and motivations.
This is a tough read about letting go of the past and finding beauty in the present, even if it’s not how you envisioned it. It’s a story of moving on, and coming to terms with yourself and the fact that not everything is sunshine and rainbows. It’s a lesson about the natural changes that occur while we grow up, and how tough these can be to deal with and accept — changes both within ourselves and the people closest to us.
This book is dark, raw, and unfiltered, pulling no punches in exploring the psyche of a confused and flawed but well-meaning young person. As the reader, you experience everything from Joey’s perspective — all the highs and all the lows. It’s an important, authentic exploration of a growing mind, and a read you won’t ever forget, written by Mojo Hill between the ages of 17 and 19.
579 pages, Paperback
Published June 10, 2021
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October 29, 2023
This book is a sick and twisted story of a pervert who fantasizes about young girls and talks of murder. Whoever wrote this should be in jail
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