A review by jbaby_reads
With Friends Like These: A Novel by Alissa Lee

4.0

3.5 - thanks to netgalley and the author / publisher for the ARC copy!! i think this had a lot of potential, and found it to be a very sweet tale of friendship, but it felt like every single chapter had a flashback that didn’t necessarily add anything to the characters. i felt like each event in the present would build and build, then come to a screeching halt with “it reminded me of this time X brushed her teeth”. the momentum built up each time, but every flashback threw a wrench in it for me. i liked the ending a lot!!