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annagwritesandreads 's review for:
If He Had Been with Me
by Laura Nowlin
dark
emotional
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
3.5/5 Stars
General Description: Autumn and Finn have been extremely close; well, until Autumn takes a different path through high school that leads her away from Finn. From Autumn's long term relationship and unresolved feelings with Finn, will she be able to find peace by the time she graduates?
The good:
- I truly feel like this book captured the high school experience. I felt taken right back to my experience with my high school ex and friend drama. I think that's personally why I rated it so highly is I did related to the story a lot.
- The last 20 minutes was a complete emotional rollercoaster I was here for.
- I appreciated how real the adults felt in this book, seeing their struggles and not just showing the adults as randomly clueless, but as folks who also needed to get help. Not that it's an excuse for all the adults behavior, but i felt we got more insight in this book towards the adults than other books.
The loss of a star and a half:
- It was SO slow. Extremely character driven to the point where i was not sure why we needed all 4 years of high school spelled out to us?
- This needed Finn's perspective. Like I am so happy another book is coming out to expose that side because I totally felt it was missed.
Overall: I'd wait until Finn's perspective comes out and read both as like a tandem read? I feel like it'd be so much more fulfilling personally (could be wrong, may edit after next book comes out).
General Description: Autumn and Finn have been extremely close; well, until Autumn takes a different path through high school that leads her away from Finn. From Autumn's long term relationship and unresolved feelings with Finn, will she be able to find peace by the time she graduates?
The good:
- I truly feel like this book captured the high school experience. I felt taken right back to my experience with my high school ex and friend drama. I think that's personally why I rated it so highly is I did related to the story a lot.
- The last 20 minutes was a complete emotional rollercoaster I was here for.
- I appreciated how real the adults felt in this book, seeing their struggles and not just showing the adults as randomly clueless, but as folks who also needed to get help. Not that it's an excuse for all the adults behavior, but i felt we got more insight in this book towards the adults than other books.
The loss of a star and a half:
- It was SO slow. Extremely character driven to the point where i was not sure why we needed all 4 years of high school spelled out to us?
- This needed Finn's perspective. Like I am so happy another book is coming out to expose that side because I totally felt it was missed.
Overall: I'd wait until Finn's perspective comes out and read both as like a tandem read? I feel like it'd be so much more fulfilling personally (could be wrong, may edit after next book comes out).