Review by mandas_bookcorner - Everything We Never Knew

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Everything We Never Knew by Ellen Goodlett, Julianne Hough

2.25

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This book follows the main character, Alexis or Lexi. Lexi is a young lady who has been through an immense amount of trauma in her life. One night at a Christmas-themed work event, she is shocked to discover she has medium powers. Lexi can visualize a person's past trauma in detail. The first instance of the visions occurred when she was giving a speech. The subject of the vision was a man named Henry. In the vision, Lexi hears a woman scream, "Henry, don't let go," and "Henry please, someone save him". After the visions end, Lexi struggles to reconcile what it all means. A little while later, Lexi reads Henry's obituary, and her vision of Henry begins to make sense to her at least a little. Throughout the rest of the Lexi's visions continue with many people. Lexi tries her darndest to dissect her visions with help from an unlikely source. Lexi soon becomes enthralled with spirituality, energy, and auras. She uses her new interest to help people, including herself.

This book has a heavy focus on spirituality, energy, and auras. The book reminds me loosely of the TV show Mystic on UP TV based solely on the visions. Overall, this book was not bad for a debut novel, but it was not great either. If you enjoy books about spirituality, energy, and, auras then this is the book for you. The book was a bit of an odd fit for my reading interests.

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