My most prevalent thought during the first 100 plus pages of Broken was "Enough with the emo moping around!" At a certain point I just hit my threshold point of Emma moaning over her deceased boyfriend. Maybe I'm just insensitive? I understand it was very recent, having only happened four months ago, but still I couldn't handle it after awhile. Luckily a lot of that changes once Alex enters the picture. It was close to being instant love but not quite. Due to the circumstances behind Alex's accident and recovery certain things worked for me that normally would have irked me. Instead here I found Alex very endearing and even Emma's inclination to gravitate towards him completely understandable. 
 I believe Broken would appeal more so to actual teens/young adults than it would to adults who enjoy reading YA fiction. That is because the bulk of this book read like "a day in the life of any highschooler." She gets up, gets ready for school, has breakfast, walks to school, goes through classes, has lunch, more classes, school ends, goes home...then Rinse, Repeat. This happens several times with not a whole lot happening between those things. Spoilers? - Except, a short field trip, two trips to the local med clinic, a school dance and then a short night on the town. 
 I found Emma's classifications of all the different groups at school pretty funny. I'm sure everyone knows and understands all about those. Given that I ripped through it in a day this was definitely a smooth easy read. The later part of the book thankfully picked up the pace and pulled away more from the hum drum school life. I'd definitely be open to reading more of A.E. Rought's work in the future.