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A review by tatumoshea
When We Were by Diana Elliot Graham
4.0
This is one of those books that will sort of stick with you for a while. I kept going back to it after a finished in the same way I did with Normal People (which is a book I would recommend alongside this but don't tandem read unless you want to like die).
I knew what I was getting into when I started based on the author's TikToks, but it was still quite gut-wrenching. Personal story, I also had the worst stye on my eye, so when I was crying reading the last few chapters, it was like full-on sobbing because I was in literal physical pain. Okay, that's beside the point, but what an experience to have.
Anyway, I rated this 4 stars because I do think it's a really good romance/women's fiction book. You'll have expectations going in that will be blown away, and you'll also cry many times. Even if you're not as invested in the romance, I still think it's a very interesting dive into choices we make at that stage in our lives and how we look back on them years later (I presume at least I am 20). In my copy of the book, there were a multitude of grammatical errors that threw me, but it's a debut self-published book, we must pick our battles. Still think it's the perfect heartbreak book.
I knew what I was getting into when I started based on the author's TikToks, but it was still quite gut-wrenching. Personal story, I also had the worst stye on my eye, so when I was crying reading the last few chapters, it was like full-on sobbing because I was in literal physical pain. Okay, that's beside the point, but what an experience to have.
Anyway, I rated this 4 stars because I do think it's a really good romance/women's fiction book. You'll have expectations going in that will be blown away, and you'll also cry many times. Even if you're not as invested in the romance, I still think it's a very interesting dive into choices we make at that stage in our lives and how we look back on them years later (I presume at least I am 20). In my copy of the book, there were a multitude of grammatical errors that threw me, but it's a debut self-published book, we must pick our battles. Still think it's the perfect heartbreak book.