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A review by readsandrants
What We Both Know by Fawn Parker
slow-paced
2.75
Thanks Netgalley for the ARC
This book lured me in with the comparison to my dark Vanessa but ultimately disappointed. It was clear to me what was happening but it was never actually said, this book said so many things and yet nothing at all. If you like boring books in which nothing happens then this book is for you. The whole time there is this buildup and this expectation and then you reach the end and nothing has happened.
I liked the idea of this book but the execution just fell flat with this author. Even though I didn’t enjoy my dark Vanessa I could appreciate the writing and the message behind it but I'm sad to say that I can’t say the same about this book.
Someone else who reviewed this book said something that I feel was a great way to summarize this book, so I will share it here: “I think having that comparison to my dark Vanessa does a disservice to anyone reading this novel, and the novel itself. The focus is not so much on the crime or even the person who did irreparable damage to another human being. It is really an exploration of a person who was ignorant to events surrounding the lives of her family, and confronting those events later in life.”
This book lured me in with the comparison to my dark Vanessa but ultimately disappointed. It was clear to me what was happening but it was never actually said, this book said so many things and yet nothing at all. If you like boring books in which nothing happens then this book is for you. The whole time there is this buildup and this expectation and then you reach the end and nothing has happened.
I liked the idea of this book but the execution just fell flat with this author. Even though I didn’t enjoy my dark Vanessa I could appreciate the writing and the message behind it but I'm sad to say that I can’t say the same about this book.
Someone else who reviewed this book said something that I feel was a great way to summarize this book, so I will share it here: “I think having that comparison to my dark Vanessa does a disservice to anyone reading this novel, and the novel itself. The focus is not so much on the crime or even the person who did irreparable damage to another human being. It is really an exploration of a person who was ignorant to events surrounding the lives of her family, and confronting those events later in life.”