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3.81 AVERAGE
3.81 AVERAGE
Compelling, engaging, and enjoyable, but it won't stick with me. I did find the unspooling of the two timelines to be well done. I liked not knowing what horrible thing happened for so long. Oh, and it's been a long time since I liked a title and felt it applied to the book!
Thank you to @netgalley and @atriabooks for my free e-arc copy of this book!
I selected this book because of the booksharks hype that I kept seeing all over Instagram, but the synopsis wasn’t really interesting to me.
When I finally started reading this book, I was hooked! The suspense that was building right from the very beginning was obsessive. I loved that the story slowly unraveled. The story was mind blowing and sent me on an emotional rollercoaster.
The ending was absolutely perfect and exactly what I wanted from this book.
I selected this book because of the booksharks hype that I kept seeing all over Instagram, but the synopsis wasn’t really interesting to me.
When I finally started reading this book, I was hooked! The suspense that was building right from the very beginning was obsessive. I loved that the story slowly unraveled. The story was mind blowing and sent me on an emotional rollercoaster.
The ending was absolutely perfect and exactly what I wanted from this book.
We Came Here to Forget by Andrea Dunlop- 4⭐️ - I read the majority of this book on a plane (the best place to read imo). It’s a combo between a mystery/thriller and a “woman tries to put her life back together after it falls apart” book with the majority of it taking place in Buenos Aires. At the beginning of the book, we meet Katie Cleary, who is an Olympic downhill skier whose life and career has fallen apart after her family is part of a huge scandal/tragedy involving her sister. Exactly “what” that scandal is is explained in alternating chapters with Katie going to Buenos Aires to escape and try to put her life back together. This is an emotional page turner with a great cast of characters.
*Book About Sisters
I. Hate. That. Trope.
86 G, sub Blair, ya know?
I. Hate. That. Trope.
86 G, sub Blair, ya know?
This novel sounded PERFECT for me: an Olympic skier loses everything (we don’t know why until later in the novel) and escapes to Buenos Aires where she meets up with a colorful group of ex-pats to reinvent herself, etc. I have heard really good things about this one from some of my reading friends but, to me, it fell a little flat. There are alternating timelines and I enjoyed one of them much more than the other. It was good, but borrow this one from the library just to be safe.
It was fun to get lost in a world of ex-pats with mysterious pasts drinking Malbec and dancing through Buenos Aires, but this book wasn’t particularly well written or complex. The story and characters are engaging and it is a fun, quick read that I’d recommend for traveling or the beach.
We Came Here to Forget started out a bit slow but suddenly I couldn’t put it down. Katie Cleary has suddenly left her life and traveled to Buenos Aires. Through chapters that trade back and forth, we follow her as she meets new friends and get tantalizing glimpses into her past. I kept reading because I just had to find out what Katie and the people she met in Buenos Aires were trying to forget and move past. This is a book that definitely gets you thinking and packs quite the emotional punch.
There are lots of things I wish I could forget, but this book is not one of them. Great story!
WE CAME HERE TO FORGET is a novel about a lot of things, but at heart it’s about second chances. Andrea Dunlop asks readers to wrestle with the question: what do you do when your whole world falls apart? Flee to Buenos Aires, of course. Full of misfit characters, family drama you wouldn’t wish on your worst enemy, and bad dating choices, this book is real and raw and leaves you thankful to be alive. Full review HERE: https://www.lindsay-hamilton.com/blog/book-review-we-came-here-to-forget-by-andrea-dunlop
dark
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated