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We Were Never Here

Andrea Bartz

3.4 AVERAGE

adventurous dark emotional mysterious fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
dark mysterious tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous dark tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

oh the twists! so good!
dark tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix

rating: 4.25 stars
setting: Chile🇨🇱☀️ [vacation destination] & Wisconsin[where main character lives] late winter❄️/early spring🌸
genre: thriller
pacing: fast-paced
writing: easy to read, bingeable 

This thriller gripped me right away and didn't let go. It was high stakes, thrilling, dark, anxiety inducing and so fucking fun. It took turns I didn't expect- this book is a rollercoaster that'll have you scrambling to get to the conclusion. 

Emily and her best friend Kristen have been inseparable since college and as close as sisters. Although Kristen's job has taken her across the globe to Australia, they still have their vacations to exotic places together. A year ago, in Cambodia, Emily brought a cute tourist back to their hotel. Kristen walks in on Emily being assaulted. Kristen takes action and ends up killing the man in self-defense. Being that they are in Cambodia, they are terrified of getting the police involved. Being stuck in a foreign prison? No way. They roll the man off a cliff and vow to never tell a soul. 

This year in Chile, Emily walks into her hotel room to find Kristen with a man , dead, his head smashed in with a wine bottle. Kristen said he assaulted her. She had no choice. Didn't Emily remember her attack a year ago? Kristen was terrified and had to defend herself. 

Now Emily's head is spinning. Did the same situation happen to these women on two separate vacations? Or is Kristen a vicious killer? Things take a turn, and it becomes a pulse pounding, wtf is happening? type of thriller.

The very ending is going to piss some people off. I get it, but I personally loovvveeee a sinister ending. It just makes it even more of a ludacris read. I love some wild, fun plots in my thrillers, so I had a blast. It was also very anxiety inducing, and I love to hate getting that feeling.😅
dark emotional tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Predictable, cringy and boring 
adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

  What could happen when two toxic codependent people find their mirror twin in someone else? Gaslighting each other so hard they end up gaslighting themselves into a new reality. Or do they finally realize the truth? We may never know as this story is told from a single POV and the truth has three sides. Your side, their side and the Truth.

Didn’t do it for me
Predictable but also the characters were annoying and not relatable. Hated the very end