Review by dhrutibc - The Summer We Ran

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dhrutibc 's review for:

The Summer We Ran by Audrey Ingram

2.0

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I have to say that the miscommunication trope is hard at play here, and I hate it.

I don't really understand why either character hid everything from their significant others for 25 years and then refused to talk about it when their spouses confronted them.

I do understand the difficult subject matter, but I would expect more maturity from two people running for governor.

I suspected the miscarriage twist from the very beginning, but it really frustrated me that this twist only exists because Tess withheld information or misled people and therefore, the readers. Even in the conversation where it is revealed, Tess is deliberately misleading Grant (and the reader) until he starts talking about trying to find his child.

I'm also not interested in this everything works out type of ending for this kind of book. Instead, it seems like they resolved their teenage differences and then everything could be fine with them? Have they not changed as people at all?

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