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Just Last Night by Mhairi McFarlane
reflective
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
3.75
Stats: Contemporary women’s fiction, fairly romance forward, MF, single first person POV/present tense, no sex, characters in their 30s. TW: grief due to (MAJOR plot spoiler, I don’t recommend uncovering) death of a character , history of cheating, history of child abuse
This starts off slow, and for the first several chapters, I was seriously considering DNF’ing. Even when I decided to continue reading it, at first I thought it was going to be only ok. But as I continued to read it, I got hooked, and the latter part of the book was really quite good (although the epilogue was perhaps not as strong). It was an interesting exploration of how the stories we tell ourselves and others about our lives can be misleading. The depiction of grief was very true. This was the first book I’ve read by Mhairi McFarlane, and even if this wasn’t my all time favorite read, in the end I liked this enough to seek out more books by this author, and I would recommend this book to others.
This starts off slow, and for the first several chapters, I was seriously considering DNF’ing. Even when I decided to continue reading it, at first I thought it was going to be only ok. But as I continued to read it, I got hooked, and the latter part of the book was really quite good (although the epilogue was perhaps not as strong). It was an interesting exploration of how the stories we tell ourselves and others about our lives can be misleading. The depiction of grief was very true. This was the first book I’ve read by Mhairi McFarlane, and even if this wasn’t my all time favorite read, in the end I liked this enough to seek out more books by this author, and I would recommend this book to others.