A review by tiareleine
The People We Choose by Katelyn Detweiler

3.0

Very strange premise, but good characters and a decent exploration of the idea. Although, the SYNOPSIS revealed to use that Calliope and Max are biological half-siblings, and yet we had to wait HALF the book for them to find out. I get that we needed to experience them falling in love so we could understand their reaction to the reveal, and I get that this kind of reveal would be super revolting as a surprise and could be triggering so the publisher played it safe by being upfront about it, BUT that made the first HALF of the book pretty excruciating because WE KNOW this horrible information that they don't know and we have to watch them date (eww) thinking "please stop, please stop, please stop." I don't know what would have been a better approach, maybe this was the best one, but 3 stars for a decent book is maybe just what has to be given an icky premise.