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All We Could Have Been by T.E. Carter
4.0

This is a truly heartbreaking read about Lexie’s trauma and what she went through due to her brothers actions. She suffers from PTSD/anxiety and makes her move each year to escape people’s comments on her life and what her brother did. She has a hard time making friends and getting close to anyone, which makes it hard to live as a teenager. With this last move-something is different. She starts to go through a healing process, which I loved. The growth of Lexie was great. I too suffer from anxiety and know those spiraling thoughts of the what-if’s and that distorted thinking.
Definitely a great read. I docked a star because the ending was super abrupt and I wished there was an epilogue to see her in the future from moving on what happened with everyone finding out. She was starting to cope with it, but I just wished it took it a bit farther than that with a good time jump.