The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald, book review: Finding solace far from home

“Books are meant to be better than reality. Bigger, funnier, more beautiful, more tragic, more romantic,” says Sara – the cerebral heroine. In this fragment we have not only a suggestion of Sara’s character – that of a girl accustomed to choosing the company of books over people – but also a bold declaration from the author Katarina Bivald; a statement that this is what a book should be, what she intends this very book in which you read these words, to be.