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We Can Never Leave
by H.E. Edgmon
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
One day, a group of kids wake up, and the group of people they were living with, called the Caravan, were gone. Now, these five misfits have to find out what happened and find their missing family.
This was not quite what I was expecting…I also don’t really know what I was expecting.
I was expecting I suppose some sort of adventure these kids go on, who also don’t get along, and become the best of friends 😆
It’s not like that. At all.
And I love that the author shoved a narration in here telling us that, and also speaking to me the reader about what’s going on, sort of, not really, but speaking me to me nonetheless.
It made for an interesting and unique read. The whole book seems to shroud around the mystery of this so-called Caravan and these people that were like those in the series Sweet Tooth(FANTASTIC SHOW by the way), who are not accepted by humans, but are by the Caravan. And yet, they seem to be hiding something, we don’t know what, and so the whole book I’m just tying to understand what is happening, and it’s like a very twisted ending, in that, it’s not what you expect. It’s a twist.
None of the characters are truly appealing, except for Felix and Eamon, until the end, and my whole perspective changes about certain people, like Hugo. It’s like the people I didn’t like had a redemption arc, and I love a good redemption arc. It’s well done. That being said, none of these kids were truly nice to each other, and I think it was simply tension because everyone seemed to like each other or knew something the others didn’t and took it out on everyone. So, a lot of drama, but I still enjoyed the end.
There’s a lot of back and forth with the timeline, probably to give hints as to what is happening or what happened, and also why it happened.
I felt bad for these kids because they were all pretty messed up and it wasn’t their fault. It was this weird community they were a part of that seemed to brainwash these kids into thinking everything’s fine when it’s not, or when something is odd or wrong. It’s a bit frustrating to read when as the reader I can something is wrong, but I can’t do anything about it.
This was definitely a different read from what I normally read and I enjoyed it, but that ending is what really made the whole book for me. Definitely worth the read just for the ending. 3.5-4 stars.
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher Wednesday Books for the e-ARC. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
This was not quite what I was expecting…I also don’t really know what I was expecting.
I was expecting I suppose some sort of adventure these kids go on, who also don’t get along, and become the best of friends 😆
It’s not like that. At all.
And I love that the author shoved a narration in here telling us that, and also speaking to me the reader about what’s going on, sort of, not really, but speaking me to me nonetheless.
It made for an interesting and unique read. The whole book seems to shroud around the mystery of this so-called Caravan and these people that were like those in the series Sweet Tooth(FANTASTIC SHOW by the way), who are not accepted by humans, but are by the Caravan. And yet, they seem to be hiding something, we don’t know what, and so the whole book I’m just tying to understand what is happening, and it’s like a very twisted ending, in that, it’s not what you expect. It’s a twist.
None of the characters are truly appealing, except for Felix and Eamon, until the end, and my whole perspective changes about certain people, like Hugo. It’s like the people I didn’t like had a redemption arc, and I love a good redemption arc. It’s well done. That being said, none of these kids were truly nice to each other, and I think it was simply tension because everyone seemed to like each other or knew something the others didn’t and took it out on everyone. So, a lot of drama, but I still enjoyed the end.
There’s a lot of back and forth with the timeline, probably to give hints as to what is happening or what happened, and also why it happened.
I felt bad for these kids because they were all pretty messed up and it wasn’t their fault. It was this weird community they were a part of that seemed to brainwash these kids into thinking everything’s fine when it’s not, or when something is odd or wrong. It’s a bit frustrating to read when as the reader I can something is wrong, but I can’t do anything about it.
This was definitely a different read from what I normally read and I enjoyed it, but that ending is what really made the whole book for me. Definitely worth the read just for the ending. 3.5-4 stars.
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher Wednesday Books for the e-ARC. All thoughts and opinions are my own.