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Things We Hide From The Light by Lucy Score

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elbow1227's review

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adventurous funny lighthearted relaxing tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This book was amazing. I loved how Lucy Score showcased

anxiety, going through grief, learning how to trust after tragedy happens, loneliness, addiction, and many other topics, so beautifully through Nash and Lina's love story.

I will say that this book had me laughing, crying, and just loving every page. This was such a good companion sequel to Things We Never Got Over. Can't wait to read about Sloane and Lucian's story in Things We Left Behind. If I could give this book more than five stars, I would.

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sami_leigh's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful mysterious medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5

🌶️🌶️.5/5

Everyone was alive and breathing. Everyone but me. I was just pretending.

“It’s the Morgan way. Why shine the light on things when you can pretend they don’t exist?”

Whenever you’re close, everything is better. The closer you are, the easier I breathe, the less I feel like life is just a never-ending pour of lemon juice into an open wound that won’t heal.

“You’re not responsible for how you were brought up, but you are responsible for your actions and reactions once you’re an adult.”

“Tell me what you need to feel safe with this. With us.”

🪽 First person dual POV

🪽 Brother’s best friend/ex
🪽 Police chief / insurance investigator
🪽 Forced proximity; neighbours

🪽 Insta-chemistry
🪽 Both have secrets
🪽 Representation of working through trauma and anxiety associated with a shooting and a medical ailment

🪽 Nickname 🥹

🪽 Found family

🪽 Banter 👌🏻

🪽 Small town vibes

🪽 ‘Touch her and I’ll kill you’ vibes (‘Touch him and I’ll kill you’ vibes 🙌🏻)
🪽 The way Knox & Nash are cinnamon rolls for Waylay 🥹

🪽 Well established secondary characters; Knox & Daisy (Book 1), Waylay (Book 1), Sloane (Book 3), Lucian (Book 3)

🪽 MC growth; risking a relationship, overcoming trauma, unhealthy family ties, boundaries, communication.
🪽 Consent culture 🙌🏻

🪽 Epilogue
🪽 Bonus epilogue 2 years later

Available in audiobook, ebook and paperback.

⚠️ Toxic relationship (platonic), violence (moderate), gun violence (explicit), death of a parent (past), death, blood (minor), parental abandonment, kidnapping, medical trauma (moderate, past).

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worldofv33's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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shinyfox's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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susieis's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.25

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jennabeck13's review against another edition

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adventurous hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Things We Hide From The Light by Lucy Score

⭐️⭐️⭐️ (3/5)

Genre: Romance

About 575 pages

After losing the competition for a dream girl to his brother, Knox, and being shot, Nash is struggling with his mental health. He feels like a shell of himself and is having trouble coping. Insert Lina… She’s a firecracker of an insurance investigator and challenges Nash in more ways than he could ever imagine. She is stubborn as hell and annoys the crap out of him, but oddly enough being around her soothes Nash’s anxiety. Eventually, the two come to a mutual agreement to help each other solve their respective cases and have some fun along the way😉 What could go wrong?

I liked this book but would definitely rank TWNGO higher. Lucy Score’s writing is easy to read and the spice level in this book was 🔥. However, I had two main issues. One, the story was way too similar to TWNGO. Two, I think Score moved the romance along too quickly between Nash and Lina. We never really saw them interact in book #1, yet it was 🔥🌶️ from the start. So I missed the build-up/foundation that was given to Knox and Naomi…. One more Knockemout book to go and it may be the one I’m most excited for. Lucian and Sloane have intrigued me from book #1 and they seem to have a past we don’t know about that I can’t wait to learn more about.

Favorite Quote: “Heaven and hell intertwined, turning pleasure into an exquisite torture. I wouldn’t survive this. But I already knew I couldn’t survive without her.”

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eriinmaureenn's review

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emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

I enjoyed this but not as much as the first one. I do love the thriller aspects of these books, but this book started out SO SLOW and I found it difficult to become invested in the beginning.

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