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A review by bbarto
All That We Never Were by Alice Kellen
2.0
This book left me uneasy. That's the best way to describe how I feel. Slightly icky, kinda pissed...something I'm not used to feeling from books.
**SPOILERS**
It started off really interesting and I was sucked right in. That's why I even rated this 2 stars instead of 1. A teenager is grieving the loss of her parents and is forced to move into her brother's best friend's house. He's presented initially as a father-type figure because of their age gap, and sort of a know-it-all about life. Yes, because at the wise old age of 29, he surely knows how to bring someone through grief. It was annoying, but I pushed through.
Anyway, he moves from father/much older brother figure to the person she's apparently been obsessed with since she was a child (and a child she still is, based on her behavior and naivety). There was a little bit of a disconnect between the initial information the author gave and about a third of the way through the book. I don't know if that was purposely done or not, but it was jarring.
It felt like the whole book was a build-up and they rushed through to all-of-a-sudden-banging-and-being-in-love. It just all felt so wrong, seeing as how the first part of the book built him up to basically be her family. And the ending? What the f&*# was that?! I didn't even feel like I wanted more.
**SPOILERS**
It started off really interesting and I was sucked right in. That's why I even rated this 2 stars instead of 1. A teenager is grieving the loss of her parents and is forced to move into her brother's best friend's house. He's presented initially as a father-type figure because of their age gap, and sort of a know-it-all about life. Yes, because at the wise old age of 29, he surely knows how to bring someone through grief. It was annoying, but I pushed through.
Anyway, he moves from father/much older brother figure to the person she's apparently been obsessed with since she was a child (and a child she still is, based on her behavior and naivety). There was a little bit of a disconnect between the initial information the author gave and about a third of the way through the book. I don't know if that was purposely done or not, but it was jarring.
It felt like the whole book was a build-up and they rushed through to all-of-a-sudden-banging-and-being-in-love. It just all felt so wrong, seeing as how the first part of the book built him up to basically be her family. And the ending? What the f&*# was that?! I didn't even feel like I wanted more.