The book, "Broken Silence", was by far one of the best, more realistic books I've ever read. The story is about a girl who grew up being sexually abused by her dad and his friend, from the age of five to thirteen. Through those years Oakley was completely silent and would not talk to anyone until it finally stopped. The story starts in Australia where Oakley, her mom, and her brother, Jasper, moved from England after Oakley had finally gone to the police about the situation at 16. It's four year...

I just... I really don't want to be negative, but I found this even more frustrating of a read than the first book. The timing was really.... I don't know how to articulate it... time just seemed to skip ahead in a jarring/ jerky sort of way. There was more poor grammar and quite a few typos, and I could feel myself getting annoyed with the way things played out.There was a lot of melodrama around the court case, where it could have been more effective to show the emotions in a different way. It...

Natasha Preston has become one of my favorite authors ever!! I actually love Broken Silence more than Silence. It goes more in depth of Cole and Oakley's relationship. Crazy how much you can love someone.

O O O O O OH my. And I thought the first book was good.... But now it is... whats the word? O.. O-vverrr? Over. There is another book, but it isn't from Oakley or Coles point of view. So that leaves me like this:and from me to Natasha Preston:and my overall pain:but all the tears. every one. every drop full of happiness. not sorrow. full of this:(view spoiler)[THEY ARE GONNA HAVE A BABY!!!! oH MY glOB!!! they will make the perfect little family!! (hide spoiler)] My only problem is that it still

Broken Silence was just not as good as the first book Silence. In Silence you had the layer of Oakley not speaking to anyone. Well since she spoke at the end of the first book there wasn't that aspect. It was just the trial and Oakley and Cole trying to figure things out. Really the book seemed like a lot of Oakley and Cole hanging out and a lot of Oakley worrying about the trial. But what if they get off? What if they don't go to jail? I know there is a ton of evidence against them, but what if...

I love happy endings! 😍

I thought that this was a fast, ok read but it was just nowhere near as good as the first book in the series. Maybe that is because in Silence there was intrigue as to why she hadn't spoken in over a decade and the book was addictive because you wanted to find out what the secret was. Although this was a quick interesting read, it was obvious where it was heading. It was clear that she (view spoiler)[ was going to move back to England, end up with Cole and that her dad and Frank would be found g...

Just like the first book in the sequel, Broken Silence by Natasha Preston is an amazing love story with a big twist. This book is about the trial of Oakley’s dad and his friend for sexually harassing Oakley when she was little. This book is quite different to the first one, as Silence (book #1) was written around Oakley and Coles thoughts, whereas this book is more focused around what is happening and direct speech.The book starts of with Oakley with her mom and brother in Australia after they h...

Love it soooooo muchThis book is so good. I could not stop reading it. At the beginning of this book I was so entertain. she went back to England. then in the middle I thought I was going to explode with anxiety. they kept making wonder if Frank and max are going to get sent to prison or not. Then the end no words. just writing this and thinking about the end makes me cry. How Cole gets arrested and every one supports him soooooo much. then for a couple minutes I thought that Oakley was going to...

This was a wonderful and an amazing book. Showing how a girl can overcome abuse. Anyone can overcome anything. Oakley came a long way and made it through. It was a lovely story. In the end I'm happy that she finds happiness. She needed that. She's able to move forward with her life. What makes it even better is that it's in Cole's point of view as well. Their love is so strong. They still love each other even though they haven't been together for 4 years since she moved to Australia. The first b...

Overall I liked the way Natasha Preston wrote this book the only thing is I wish she wouldn’t have made it so predictable. The trials weren’t as intense as I would have liked them to be so we were able to predict that they were going to find her dad guilty in the end. I also don’t like the time gap and how four years had passed since Oakley had seen Cole and the fact that she ended up being pregnant was odd. It caught me off guard because it had only been a month and a half since Cole and Oakley...

i’m gonna be honest. this was one of the few times that book #2 of the series is actually better than book #1. i felt like the writing was more mature and the author finally ~went~ there with the horrific details of what happened to Oakley. that was definitely something missing from the first one, the chilling reality of what the truth was for Oakleys silence. and book #2 gave us that and more. i’d be lying if i said that the love story became more realistic bc honestly, it stayed at fanfiction

This book broke my heart, but also taught me how love can help people find their voice. In the first book, Silence, the story is about a young girl named Oakley who was sexually abused until she was 13 years old. Due to the abuse, she stopped talking in general, so she communicated by shaking her head and nodding.In this book, it has been 4 years since she left for Australia. She is returning to testify at we father and his friend's trial after she confessed that she was abused. She has to face

wow this was pretty bad, I read it as a kindle book and have not had much luck w those yet.maybe the first book would help set this up better but I absolutely could not identify with her acting like a typical teen when she was supposed to have gone through this trauma. I bought jasper more than her. he was wacked out and highly annoying but his behavior seemed more in character.over all this book had potential I wanted to be sucked into the suspense but was never satisfied there were no spec vit...

Thank you for giving survivors of sexual abuse a voice!!!As a survivor of family sexual abuse myself, I really connected with this story! it was written so well! It seems that the author was writing from personal experience. If not, she really did her research. (although Oakley's thoughts would be difficult to emulate without personal experience). So glad these books were written....it shows that anything that doesn't kill you, makes you stronger....and that even from those bad experiences, good...

Sadly I was not impressed by this sequel. Silence itself was a frustrating read for myself, concentrating on day to day events and rushing the main issue. Unfortunately nothing has changed in this book.Far too much concentration on Oakley and Cole's feelings for one another than on the trial which should have been the priority. The relationship between the two main characters do not reflect the 4 year gap, it reads exactly like the previous book. I did skip over many pages because of this, and I...

This follows on from Silence which I quite enjoyed and to be honest this is a good follow up. It's a YA series and a bit predictable and cheesy but it's an easy read that requires zero concentration. There are two more books in the series which I will read at some stage.

After the disappointing ending for the first book, I honestly believed this book would buck up and redeem itself from its horrendous prequel. Unfortunately I was wrong. Despite having improved marginally on grammar and spelling errors, Broken Silence was just as painful to read as Silence. Again the story was too rushed and dragged on scenes that relatively didn't need more description. The tension around the court case was appealing but all of the build up didn't live up to the promise it held....

I just found the whole thing a bit daft im afraid...oakley and cole seemed to still be acting like they were 12, professing they loved each other but then not getting round to actually getting together for hsaf the book. why?! then there was no duscussion of what would happen after the trial, even though cole was buying a house. *spoiler alert* when the evidence came to light after having just been mentioned, I cringed...really?! hiw cheesy can you get! and cole being arrested was so unrealistic...