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When You Were Everything by Ashley Woodfolk
4.0

It feels weird to say I enjoyed a book about a friendship break-up, but I did. I don't think we talk enough about what it's like to break up with a friend, and sometimes those scars last just as long as a romantic relationship breaking up.

Cleo and Layla have been best friends for years, but now they are growing apart. That growing apart blows up spectacularly, in a way that makes it difficult to be friends again. But how did it happen?

The format of this one is a little tricky. It flips back and forth through time, which worked better for me at the beginning than it did towards the end. At the end I was having a hard time figuring out how far away December was from the present. I think it works in a way to make you more sympathetic to Cleo at the beginning, and then you slowly realize that she has a lot to do with the break-up at the same time. I've been the Cleo before and had a friendship blow up without knowing why.

More like this, please.