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3.77 AVERAGE
3.77 AVERAGE
I read this book to continue the series, but I didn't like the new character change as much. I didn't find the narrator/main character of the story very likeable and the family drama is honestly so far fetched. Lonsdale is a great writer, but I just didn't connect to the second book and I found a lot of the content very smutty compared to the first book.
If the authors goal was to make me as disoriented as James/Carlos this book was successful.
The constant back and forth from past to present and going between James and Carlos (same person different personalities) confused and disrupted the story rather than enhanced it. The story itself was weak and started reading like a droopy romance novel. It felt like sloppy seconds of the first book rather than its own story.
The author also can't write men.
I anticipated the book---so much lost potential.
The constant back and forth from past to present and going between James and Carlos (same person different personalities) confused and disrupted the story rather than enhanced it. The story itself was weak and started reading like a droopy romance novel. It felt like sloppy seconds of the first book rather than its own story.
The author also can't write men.
I anticipated the book---so much lost potential.
This follow up was just okay. Might have been because I listened on Audible, but I was affected by some cheesiness in the writing that I didn't notice in book 1. Not sure where she'd take in in a 3rd, but seemed like a sequel was coming at the end.
I enjoyed seeing Carlos/James develop in this second installment of the, "Everything" series. The reader learns a lot more of Carlos' and James' back-story, as well as see how his relationship develops with Natalya.
The word, "fugue" appeared a bit much in this novel. And Carlos'/James' mother isa next level conspirator.
I'm looking forward to seeing how the series wraps-up in the third book.
The word, "fugue" appeared a bit much in this novel. And Carlos'/James' mother isa next level conspirator.
I'm looking forward to seeing how the series wraps-up in the third book.
mysterious
tense
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:
Complicated
I was confuse at the beginning.
P erhaps it would have been more clear had I read the first book
P erhaps it would have been more clear had I read the first book
Nothing really happened in this book. I'm not sure why it was needed. It was the latest in the "read a chapter or two at a time to keep my library/kindle challenge going". I did skim the blurb for the next one and I don't think it's going to get any better. It's going to be the next chapter or two at a time book. Only reading to see if I'm right.
Also, the ending, lord this family is toxic. This is the equivalent of a soap opera. I don't even know why Phil's story is needed, unless it was just to feed the soap opera narrative. Or to try to add a little shock factor. *rolls eyes*
Would I read again? No
Also, the ending, lord this family is toxic. This is the equivalent of a soap opera. I don't even know why Phil's story is needed, unless it was just to feed the soap opera narrative. Or to try to add a little shock factor. *rolls eyes*
Would I read again? No
Thank you to NetGalley and Lake Union Publishing for this reader's copy. In exchange, I am providing an honest review.
James has lost seven years of his life to a form of amnesia and he is angry. Who wouldn't be? Seven years ago he was about to marry the love of his life, literally, when his brother attempted to murder him and he escaped with his life but not his memory. For the last seven years, he has been living as Carlos. He got married, had a child with his new wife, adopted her son from a previous relationship, lost his wife during childbirth, and found out that he is not Carlos - he is James and has a whole different life in California. But Carlos doesn't want James' life, he wants his life with his sons and Natalie. But he has no say, no choice, in when his memory as James will return to him and leave Carlos behind as if he never existed. Carlos is scared to death to become James. And then he does. James is bewildered. Who are these two young boys calling him Papa? Where is he? Where is Aimee? The oldest boy hands him a flash drive and tells him to open it and read a letter from someone named Carlos to James. Who is this Carlos and how does James know him? Life just became very complicated for both James and Carlos.
The story of James from Everything We Keep is continued, or rather the main focus, in this title. Emerging from dissociative amnesia, James/Carlos must fight for the people they love and the life they want. In the process, everyone involved is going to experience a whole lot of confusion and hurt. This book made me curious about dissociative amnesia and now I've got an itch to study it a bit more. And now I'm ready to move on to the final book of this trilogy which focuses on the man Aimee, from book 1, ends up with.
James has lost seven years of his life to a form of amnesia and he is angry. Who wouldn't be? Seven years ago he was about to marry the love of his life, literally, when his brother attempted to murder him and he escaped with his life but not his memory. For the last seven years, he has been living as Carlos. He got married, had a child with his new wife, adopted her son from a previous relationship, lost his wife during childbirth, and found out that he is not Carlos - he is James and has a whole different life in California. But Carlos doesn't want James' life, he wants his life with his sons and Natalie. But he has no say, no choice, in when his memory as James will return to him and leave Carlos behind as if he never existed. Carlos is scared to death to become James. And then he does. James is bewildered. Who are these two young boys calling him Papa? Where is he? Where is Aimee? The oldest boy hands him a flash drive and tells him to open it and read a letter from someone named Carlos to James. Who is this Carlos and how does James know him? Life just became very complicated for both James and Carlos.
The story of James from Everything We Keep is continued, or rather the main focus, in this title. Emerging from dissociative amnesia, James/Carlos must fight for the people they love and the life they want. In the process, everyone involved is going to experience a whole lot of confusion and hurt. This book made me curious about dissociative amnesia and now I've got an itch to study it a bit more. And now I'm ready to move on to the final book of this trilogy which focuses on the man Aimee, from book 1, ends up with.
In the audiobook version, the female narrators voice was beyond annoying. I struggled to finish because of it!