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A review by rockhudson
Don't You Forget About Me by Mhairi McFarlane
5.0
I was provided an ARC via Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review.
I went in this book expecting some fluff seeing your first love later in life, chaos and funny situations happening all around and was that and so much more as well.
In this book we follow the life of 30 years old Georgina, as right in the beginning she's fired from her crappy job, serving disgusting food just to find her boyfriend in bed, ice cream covered, sleeping with someone else.
Things start to look up when during a one day job recommended by her brother-in-law where she gets an offer to go full-term, she sees her first love. Someone that meant so much to her and can't even remember her.
Then we follow Georgina's relationship with her family, Lucas, her (amazing and unique) best friends and her relationship with herself above all.
I have to say reading about Georgina's relationship with her family was so interesting because it was so complicated. At first, I was ready to brush off all of them as pretty toxic, and to some extent they were were, but there was much more than that. Reasons to certain actions, view and aspects of the characters changing the more you learned about them.
I adored the mentions of Georgina's relationship with her dad, that at first you immediately get attached to as the only one that supported and adored her fully. But even then you see her father isn't in any way perfect. And the complicated feelings of loving someone flawed, especially when their flaws are hurting others around you.
Speaking of Georgina's father, the deceptions of grief and seeing what she went through losing what was the most important person in her life, at such young age for her, and such an unexpected way for him really touched me. I really adored how she mentioned the help she got from a shrink and what she learned even if she isn't actively going.
This books also tackles on trauma, how it changes you, hurts you and affects you since it happens.
There's also mentions of abusive relationship, gaslighting and manipulation and all was handled in such good way, the character finding herself having lived that without noticing and we discover things as she does.
I cried a lot during the last 20% of it. It got heavy and very emotional and it's with still swollen eyes that I write this review.
That was my first book from Mhairi McFarlane but I'll be sure to pick up others as this was a fantastic read and definitely one of my favorites of the year.
I went in this book expecting some fluff seeing your first love later in life, chaos and funny situations happening all around and was that and so much more as well.
In this book we follow the life of 30 years old Georgina, as right in the beginning she's fired from her crappy job, serving disgusting food just to find her boyfriend in bed, ice cream covered, sleeping with someone else.
Things start to look up when during a one day job recommended by her brother-in-law where she gets an offer to go full-term, she sees her first love. Someone that meant so much to her and can't even remember her.
Then we follow Georgina's relationship with her family, Lucas, her (amazing and unique) best friends and her relationship with herself above all.
I have to say reading about Georgina's relationship with her family was so interesting because it was so complicated. At first, I was ready to brush off all of them as pretty toxic, and to some extent they were were, but there was much more than that. Reasons to certain actions, view and aspects of the characters changing the more you learned about them.
I adored the mentions of Georgina's relationship with her dad, that at first you immediately get attached to as the only one that supported and adored her fully. But even then you see her father isn't in any way perfect. And the complicated feelings of loving someone flawed, especially when their flaws are hurting others around you.
Speaking of Georgina's father, the deceptions of grief and seeing what she went through losing what was the most important person in her life, at such young age for her, and such an unexpected way for him really touched me. I really adored how she mentioned the help she got from a shrink and what she learned even if she isn't actively going.
This books also tackles on trauma, how it changes you, hurts you and affects you since it happens.
There's also mentions of abusive relationship, gaslighting and manipulation and all was handled in such good way, the character finding herself having lived that without noticing and we discover things as she does.
I cried a lot during the last 20% of it. It got heavy and very emotional and it's with still swollen eyes that I write this review.
That was my first book from Mhairi McFarlane but I'll be sure to pick up others as this was a fantastic read and definitely one of my favorites of the year.