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A review by jacki_f
All That is Lost Between Us by Sara Foster
2.0
Ugh. This book. A bunch of unlikable people, all of whom are carrying secrets and are prone to massively overreacting about anything at all. I feel like I've read books with similar premises before, and every single one of them was better. It didn't feel believable, I didn't relate to any of these people and frankly I couldn't have cared even the tiniest smidgeon less what happened to them.
At the core of this story are teenagers, Sophia and Georgia, cousins and best friends who share everything but - guess what? - each is keeping a huge secret from the other. One night they are walking home from a friend's house when a car appear out of nowhere and tries to run them down. Georgia is uninjured but Sophia is in hospital unconscious. Their frantic parents are trying to understand what happened and at the same time Georgia's parents Anya and Callum are trying to cope with the fractures in their own marriage.
I just found this book tiresome. It's tiresome when Georgia is telling her parts of the story and she keeps gradually remembering parts of the big secret but it's just too painful to continue with the memories so she has to stop thinking about them - it's so contrived! It's tiresome when Anya and Callum are supposed to be the grown ups but keep acting like overwrought teenagers and making stupid decisions that make NO SENSE other than to try to stretch out this ridiculous story. It's tiresome when Georgia's young brother Zac stumbles onto her secret and also makes silly decisions that again are just there to feed an unlikely storyline. It's tiresome when Sophia is desperate to keep her secret from her parents and then immediately tells them 5 minutes later because...oh who cares why...I didn't, I was just glad it meant that the book was nearly over.
I've read other books by Sara Foster and I've liked them. I thought the central premise - the secret that Georgia is carrying - worked, but in order to pad it out to a full book, the author had to throw all this other stuff in there and have her characters consistently make silly choices. I can't recommend this book.
At the core of this story are teenagers, Sophia and Georgia, cousins and best friends who share everything but - guess what? - each is keeping a huge secret from the other. One night they are walking home from a friend's house when a car appear out of nowhere and tries to run them down. Georgia is uninjured but Sophia is in hospital unconscious. Their frantic parents are trying to understand what happened and at the same time Georgia's parents Anya and Callum are trying to cope with the fractures in their own marriage.
I just found this book tiresome. It's tiresome when Georgia is telling her parts of the story and she keeps gradually remembering parts of the big secret but it's just too painful to continue with the memories so she has to stop thinking about them - it's so contrived! It's tiresome when Anya and Callum are supposed to be the grown ups but keep acting like overwrought teenagers and making stupid decisions that make NO SENSE other than to try to stretch out this ridiculous story. It's tiresome when Georgia's young brother Zac stumbles onto her secret and also makes silly decisions that again are just there to feed an unlikely storyline. It's tiresome when Sophia is desperate to keep her secret from her parents and then immediately tells them 5 minutes later because...oh who cares why...I didn't, I was just glad it meant that the book was nearly over.
I've read other books by Sara Foster and I've liked them. I thought the central premise - the secret that Georgia is carrying - worked, but in order to pad it out to a full book, the author had to throw all this other stuff in there and have her characters consistently make silly choices. I can't recommend this book.