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Everything We Left Behind
by Kerry Lonsdale
Thank you to NetGalley and Lake Union Publishing for this reader's copy. In exchange, I am providing an honest review.
James has lost seven years of his life to a form of amnesia and he is angry. Who wouldn't be? Seven years ago he was about to marry the love of his life, literally, when his brother attempted to murder him and he escaped with his life but not his memory. For the last seven years, he has been living as Carlos. He got married, had a child with his new wife, adopted her son from a previous relationship, lost his wife during childbirth, and found out that he is not Carlos - he is James and has a whole different life in California. But Carlos doesn't want James' life, he wants his life with his sons and Natalie. But he has no say, no choice, in when his memory as James will return to him and leave Carlos behind as if he never existed. Carlos is scared to death to become James. And then he does. James is bewildered. Who are these two young boys calling him Papa? Where is he? Where is Aimee? The oldest boy hands him a flash drive and tells him to open it and read a letter from someone named Carlos to James. Who is this Carlos and how does James know him? Life just became very complicated for both James and Carlos.
The story of James from Everything We Keep is continued, or rather the main focus, in this title. Emerging from dissociative amnesia, James/Carlos must fight for the people they love and the life they want. In the process, everyone involved is going to experience a whole lot of confusion and hurt. This book made me curious about dissociative amnesia and now I've got an itch to study it a bit more. And now I'm ready to move on to the final book of this trilogy which focuses on the man Aimee, from book 1, ends up with.
James has lost seven years of his life to a form of amnesia and he is angry. Who wouldn't be? Seven years ago he was about to marry the love of his life, literally, when his brother attempted to murder him and he escaped with his life but not his memory. For the last seven years, he has been living as Carlos. He got married, had a child with his new wife, adopted her son from a previous relationship, lost his wife during childbirth, and found out that he is not Carlos - he is James and has a whole different life in California. But Carlos doesn't want James' life, he wants his life with his sons and Natalie. But he has no say, no choice, in when his memory as James will return to him and leave Carlos behind as if he never existed. Carlos is scared to death to become James. And then he does. James is bewildered. Who are these two young boys calling him Papa? Where is he? Where is Aimee? The oldest boy hands him a flash drive and tells him to open it and read a letter from someone named Carlos to James. Who is this Carlos and how does James know him? Life just became very complicated for both James and Carlos.
The story of James from Everything We Keep is continued, or rather the main focus, in this title. Emerging from dissociative amnesia, James/Carlos must fight for the people they love and the life they want. In the process, everyone involved is going to experience a whole lot of confusion and hurt. This book made me curious about dissociative amnesia and now I've got an itch to study it a bit more. And now I'm ready to move on to the final book of this trilogy which focuses on the man Aimee, from book 1, ends up with.