Everything I Never Told You in Pop Sugar's Annual Ultimate Reading Challenge

Jan 30, 2017 Melyssa rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2017-reading-challenge, audiobooks

I listened to the audiobook of this one, and I loved it. I usually just listen a little at a time when I'm doing other things, but I made it a point to listen to this one, and I finished it in just a few days time. There are a lot of layers here -- race and culture, family secrets, parental expectations, feelings that people don't share with others, and a mystery about what happened to the main character. The narrator was great. ...more

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Nov 08, 2014 Simi rated it liked it

I liked the concept of this book and could actually feel like i could relate to a lot of it, something about it didn't gel or mesh with me and I still felt rather incomplete at the end of it... it seemed like things got resolved but the tragedy still had to happen? It didn't feel like the resolution explained the event. ...more

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Oct 16, 2014 Ms. Jared rated it really liked it

A tender, melancholy story told with compassion and deep insight into human relationships and families. This was a good one because it gives emotional, realistic perspectives from each of the main characters reeling from the death of their daughter/sister. Was it murder? Suicide? What lead up to the moment of death? How did each of the characters get to this point of dissatisfaction and how do they blinding go through their lives hurting and hurt by one another? I was quickly drawn into the stor ...more

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Aug 08, 2014 Elaine rated it really liked it

Shelves: historical-fiction

Listening to this book, all I could think of was "These are textbook horrible parents." But the kids were guilty, too, because they were old enough by the end to say or do something. The end left me feeling sad and frustrated, but it was definitely worth the read. ...more

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