Harlow's debut novel, "Everything We Never Said" is a young adult dark romance set around the main character, Ella, and her dead best friends boyfriend, Sawyer.
Ella crashed and killed her best friend, Hayley, while drunk driving home from a friends party. Now entering her senior year, she holds many regrets and can barely face her teachers. The story gets going when she starts talking to Sawyer, after he yelled at the school psychologist when him, Ella, and other people were called in to talk about Hayley.
Hayley's mom, Phoebe, requests that Ella packs up Hayleys room. And this is when she finds the very secret diary that reveals many, many secrets. This causes the action and excitement of the story; the thrill.
One problem I have with this story is the actual entries in Hayley's diary. They are all written in the past tense, like the events in each entry happened long ago. Shouldn't they be present tense? Anyway, another deduction was for the very... illegal relationship that went on AND the way the domestic abuse was written. It seemed very one sided and I couldn't quite grasp the emotions.
All in all, decent book. I wouldn't recommend to all, but to people who read Colleen Hoover, Sara J Maas, and THAT side of Booktok...
Thank you Penguin Teen and BookishFirst for a copy of this book!
Ella crashed and killed her best friend, Hayley, while drunk driving home from a friends party. Now entering her senior year, she holds many regrets and can barely face her teachers. The story gets going when she starts talking to Sawyer, after he yelled at the school psychologist when him, Ella, and other people were called in to talk about Hayley.
Hayley's mom, Phoebe, requests that Ella packs up Hayleys room. And this is when she finds the very secret diary that reveals many, many secrets. This causes the action and excitement of the story; the thrill.
One problem I have with this story is the actual entries in Hayley's diary. They are all written in the past tense, like the events in each entry happened long ago. Shouldn't they be present tense? Anyway, another deduction was for the very... illegal relationship that went on AND the way the domestic abuse was written. It seemed very one sided and I couldn't quite grasp the emotions.
All in all, decent book. I wouldn't recommend to all, but to people who read Colleen Hoover, Sara J Maas, and THAT side of Booktok...
Thank you Penguin Teen and BookishFirst for a copy of this book!