A review by missemilyv19
When I Am Through with You by Stephanie Kuehn

3.0

I loved everything about this book.... in theory. I loved the wilderness setting, I loved the unreliable narrator, I loved that it was basically written as a confession letter. I loved it all. And then I read the book.
I will admit, there was something unputdownable about this book. I did fly through it very quickly. The short chapters and easy writing really helped with that.
Having a teenage boy write a letter as to why he killed his girlfriend sounded so interesting. And there's so many things leading you into it that make you that "oh that's why!" But then it all turns out so dull and boring and it makes no damn sense.

Spoiler

He thinks she cheated on him in Peru. She treats him like absolute shit. He legitimately cheats on her in the woods. He's told that she admitted that she knows she treats him like shit. He's also told that he was a literal PROJECT for her to "fix." And then in the end, it's a twisted mercy killing?

A lot of the details that we're told don't add up to anything. The other people in the woods really don't matter, the others deaths don't add up at all. The random dude walking off into the snowstorm is literally forgotten about. It's just all nonsensical. A story for the sake of a story. Which I guess lines up with the narrator.
Overall, this is more like 2 stars but I rounded it up because I was able to read it so quickly.