She’s in love with her dead best friend’s boyfriend.
Racked with guilt, Ella turns to Hayley’s journal, hoping she’ll find something in the pages that will make her feel better about what’s happening. Instead, she discovers that Sawyer has secrets of his own and that his relationship with Hayley wasn’t as picture-perfect as it seemed.
Ella knows she should stay away but finds herself inextricably drawn to him—and scared of everything she never knew about him. Perhaps it’s his grief. Or maybe his desires, cut short by tragedy. Or could it be something twisted only Hayley knew about?
A dark, romantic thriller perfect for fans of Colleen Hoover and Laura Nowlin, Everything We Never Said explores the secrets in even the best of friendships and asks how well you ever know the ones you love. (Pub Date: May 28, 2024)
Ella lost Hayley, her best friend, to a car accident and blames herself for driving while drunk. Not that she remembers anything. Making it even worse to digest. She expects everyone to equally hate her as she herself, but Sawyer, Hayley's boyfriend, becomes her best alley in facing the after. It's a relief, until she starts suspecting Sawyer may have been physically abusing Hayley.
2.5 rounded up to 3.
A lot of this romance read like something that would come out in the later 2000's, and even if I had reason to believe that wasn't the point of the author, it was uncomfortable to read. It's too late when the book gets a little better, and it also felt like it wasn't enough to compensate it all. I think the worst flaw for me was how it didn't seem to decide if it wanted to be a romance despite adversity or a thriller made scarier by a creepy romance.
I wasn't a fan of the characters' choices either, which obviously made it harder to like or even to cheer for them. There is some mystery though that kept me going; it's not a book that drags.
Honest review based on an ARC provided by Netgalley. Many thanks to the publisher for this opportunity.
Rating: 3 out of 5.
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