A review by sarahsbookshelves
We Came Here to Forget by Andrea Dunlop

4.0

Thanks to Atria Books for an advanced copy of this book.

I love a good novel featuring a female athlete protagonist and they’re fairly hard to find (ex: You Will Know Me, The Unraveling of Mercy Louis)…so, I’m thrilled to be able to add We Came Here to Forget to the list! The story is told in dual timelines: Katie’s childhood / the lead-up to the incident with her sister and her time hanging out with an eccentric expat group in Buenos Aires while trying to figure out what to do with her life (present day). As is the case with many dual timeline books, I did prefer the childhood/ski/career/family dynamics timeline over the Buenos Aires one. I just didn’t care about the expat characters nearly as much. But, I was completely engrossed in the childhood/skiing career story. What exactly happened with Penny (and, I was pleasantly surprised that it wasn’t any of the things I guessed it could be)? How would Katie’s relationships with Luke and Blair evolve? How does Katie’s mind work as an elite female athlete? The Epilogue does tie things up way too nicely, but this was still a 4 star book for me and I flew through it in a weekend.

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