elizabethnicole 's review for:

The Two Lives of Lydia Bird by Josie Silver

4.0

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This book is hard for me to rate because it's absolutely not a 5 star book and it's absolutely not weak enough to be a 3 star book, so I guess I'm settling with 4 stars for now. 3.5 might be more accurate? I don't know. There were certain things that I loved. I loved how grief was handled and how much of a slow and steady process it truly is, but I thought the end game romance wasn't believable, even though they were so close before it felt sudden and I never pictured them in any sort of romantic setting because Lydia was always so caught up on Freddie. I never got any hints that he liked her either other than the thing in the other world which felt like a cheap way to handle it. I also felt the way Freddie's character was handled toward the end was cheap and problematic too. Wasn't digging it.