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The Light We Lost by Jill Santopolo

16 reviews

katiejohns's review against another edition

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challenging emotional reflective sad fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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betsygrace's review against another edition

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emotional reflective sad fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

I really loved this book. It’s so beautifully written and it really captures feelings I’ve never quite been able to write out into words. What a wonderful story of love and loss and life. 
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catbuechler's review against another edition

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emotional reflective sad fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

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erikalv97's review against another edition

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emotional sad fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

I really liked the author’s writing style and the stylistic choices of this book.

I found the characters thoughts and actions pretty realistic, while the situations were, maybe, not as much. 

All the same, this was a nice quick read.
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matchai's review against another edition

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This book is not romantic at all. It’s deceit, lies, unfaithfulness, obsession, and lust. Whatever happened in this book to the point that I read, was NOT love and no one can convince me otherwise.

  I literally hated everything about the main character, Lucy. Her relationship with Gabe is actually completely insufferable. The fact that she starts to date Darren all the while, she can’t get over Gabe and is willing to drop everything just to see him? Girl, just go see a therapist already. This did not even sound like love to me, it just sounded like an obsession— a teenage obsession, with no real meaning behind it. I couldn’t even feel their connection when they first  met. It was like girl meets boy, then *boom* they’re in love with each other. They kiss once and have a date for half a day and then she thinks about him for the rest of her life? And she then continues to date Darren knowing she doesn’t even really love him?

She’s soo insufferable and I literally cannot even force myself to continue reading the rest of the book about their miserable relationship. 

I ended up reading some other spoilers and found out that Gabe died and I’m honestly glad it ended with his death so it could finally end their stupid obsession with each other.
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wednesdayonacafe's review against another edition

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emotional inspiring sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character

4.25

“I never knew how much I could love another human being until I met you, Gabe. I’ll never forget that.”

I love stories set in NYC so that was nice and I liked how the author interlaced the story with everything surrounding sept11.  You can see how their relationship evolves through out the years and how, no matter what was happening in their lives they could always find comfort in each other. My only problem was that I figured the ending way too soon and that there was
some cheating (which i don’t condone no matter the circumstances)
, still sobbed like a baby tho. 
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