A review by lachateau
Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate

adventurous dark emotional hopeful sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

“In my multifold years of life, I have learned that most people get along as best they can. They don’t intend to hurt anyone. It is merely a terrible by-product of surviving.”

Decided to add this book as the availability into my bookshelf last week— as I also need another historical fiction to read later on. The story floats around two girls in the family on Mississippi 1939. I found many dictions that lead to evil and good definition in human, that I believe it’s too cracky to use. They also provided us a metaphor about triggers; as if the strike ignites gunpowder and sends a projectile spinning down a rifle barrel. That makes me thinking somehow not all the white is pure and black is dark? 

In the other hand, I also read another book as I inferred some phrases that I read. It’s similar with what i found in Hobbes’ theory— we as human beings always have choice, like John Kramer said: “free will.” Wecan choose to be good or bad, in everything we do, over anything, over anytime. And it all were driven by fear; a perpetual of restless desire of power. But it’s always entitled as product-surviving, it leans closely to a trauma projecting for me, not the utmost, just some of it. We aren’t a damage of our lives or people mistreating us, right? The ‘fear’ feeling and thought came from that experience. 

However, like the title of this book—it will guide you for the change, the melancholy revolution, of human might experience and how that proves their lives in the most unexpected ways. Not just by themselves, but everyone around them as well. Like family, friends, and their behaviours to treat others.