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A review by obsidian_blue
I Found You by Lisa Jewell
3.0
Trigger warning: Sexual assault
I struggled with the rating on this one, but honestly it's a three star read. I think that there were way too many gaps in this one and the past POV with Graham honestly took away from things. I am realizing that I wish that the POVs had stayed women throughout since we have a lot of things that were about the abuse, rape, murder, and assault of women. And honestly, the character of Alice was out of her head. I was so annoyed with her entire story-line and her deciding to open up her home to a man she didn't know and when you find out about her past I got doubly angry. I don't know why Jewell tried to play it off as some epic romance, but there you go.
"I Found You" follows single mother of three, Alice. She has gotten into trouble before with her impulses and once again decides to go against all sense and has a man who claims to have no memory stay with her and her three children. Alice finds herself drawn more and more to the man named "Frank" and wonders if there is someone looking for him.
Newly married Lily is scared because her husband of three weeks Carl has gone missing. She realizes she knows next to nothing about his life and worries that he is dead somewhere.
In 1993, we follow teen Graham (who wants to be known as Gray) who goes away with his family for their annual two week holiday. Things turn sinister though when an older boy named Mark focuses his attentions on his younger sister Kristy.
Honestly, I think the strongest POV for me was Lily. I think that Alice was too irritating by far for me and Gray's just didn't work. I know why Jewell did it that way, but it just felt like too many separate incidents up until the reveal/twist point.
The entire book jumps between Alice, Lily, and Gray. Alice and Lily are in the same present, but Gray is firmly in the past. I think the flow of the book just didn't work because of that honestly, and as I said again, I think that Jewell had a lost opportunity to stick with Kristy there. I think some of the scenes we got would have held more weight.
The setting of the book jumps between the present and 1993. We have Alice wandering around with Frank hoping he gains his memory and Lily rushing around with a former colleague of her husband trying to figure out what went on.
The ending was a big who cares honestly. It just didn't ring true and wasn't satisfying to me at all.
I struggled with the rating on this one, but honestly it's a three star read. I think that there were way too many gaps in this one and the past POV with Graham honestly took away from things. I am realizing that I wish that the POVs had stayed women throughout since we have a lot of things that were about the abuse, rape, murder, and assault of women. And honestly, the character of Alice was out of her head. I was so annoyed with her entire story-line and her deciding to open up her home to a man she didn't know and when you find out about her past I got doubly angry. I don't know why Jewell tried to play it off as some epic romance, but there you go.
"I Found You" follows single mother of three, Alice. She has gotten into trouble before with her impulses and once again decides to go against all sense and has a man who claims to have no memory stay with her and her three children. Alice finds herself drawn more and more to the man named "Frank" and wonders if there is someone looking for him.
Newly married Lily is scared because her husband of three weeks Carl has gone missing. She realizes she knows next to nothing about his life and worries that he is dead somewhere.
In 1993, we follow teen Graham (who wants to be known as Gray) who goes away with his family for their annual two week holiday. Things turn sinister though when an older boy named Mark focuses his attentions on his younger sister Kristy.
Honestly, I think the strongest POV for me was Lily. I think that Alice was too irritating by far for me and Gray's just didn't work. I know why Jewell did it that way, but it just felt like too many separate incidents up until the reveal/twist point.
The entire book jumps between Alice, Lily, and Gray. Alice and Lily are in the same present, but Gray is firmly in the past. I think the flow of the book just didn't work because of that honestly, and as I said again, I think that Jewell had a lost opportunity to stick with Kristy there. I think some of the scenes we got would have held more weight.
The setting of the book jumps between the present and 1993. We have Alice wandering around with Frank hoping he gains his memory and Lily rushing around with a former colleague of her husband trying to figure out what went on.
The ending was a big who cares honestly. It just didn't ring true and wasn't satisfying to me at all.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Rape