A review by bookofmirth
Love Water Memory by Jennie Shortridge

3.0

I finished this book purely for the story, to find out what it was that Lucie was hiding in her past. I was grabbed by the story immediately and wanted to find out what had happened to her, but ultimately this isn't the kind of book I will probably ever read again because I didn't get close to the characters.

I did find the different perspectives intriguing, especially the different ways that Grady and Lucie viewed each other's behaviors. They each took different meanings from them, sometimes they interpreted each other's behaviors in the complete opposite way of how they were intended, and darned if that isn't just the way relationships go sometimes...

Spoiler

I had some issues with everyone's explanation of Lucie's behavior after the murder/suicide destruction of her family when she was 15. Lucie plays with the idea that she must have mentally reset in a similar fashion after that first event, which is why she was never again close with her aunt and uncle. Um, what? How is it that 1) a 15-year-old could have gone through an event like that and it didn't occur to anyone to get her some help, and 2) no one noticed that this girl had a complete mental breakdown that resulted in her completely blocking out the event to the point that she goes through a humongous personality change? I just... what?

Final judgement - definitely a lighter, entertaining summer read.