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Without You by Marley Valentine
5.0

First off I listened to the audiobook

I really struggled trying to my thoughts together on how I’d rate this but I think this deserves a 5 stars.

This book was so incredibly raw and somber, this is not a book where you’re showered with lots of happy feel good emotions. There is a constant undertone of grief.

Deacon was such a complex character and the amount of layers there is to him makes him so incredible. With everything surround him and his family, not only because of his brother but because of his mother and the emotional hold she has over him. I think the portrayal of the battle his father has in this situation about how he is supposed to act is so raw and difficult.

You read so many books where things are supposed to be black and white, but in reality everything is grey and it’s so hard to make the right decisions sometimes and I felt that constantly with Bill.

Whether I started listening to Chapter 28, I thought I was about to break and I think my only real complaint with this book was that Chapter 28 wasn’t longer. I was dying to know what Rhett’s letter to Julian held. Probably a good thing it wasn’t included, because I probably would’ve been sobbing for a good few hours.

Also as a side note, Wades and Kristy’s proposal was absolute comedy gold. I was laughing so much.