Book 005: Everything We Keep

[Jessica]

Everything We Keep
Jessy's suggestion (via a IRL book club) is Everything We Keep by Kerry Lonsdale. The "due" date will be March 6, 2017 :)

[Nikki]

First of all, I feel like books that are described as "luminous" make up a LOT of my "read" shelf. I'm not entirely sure what publishers mean when they describe books this way, but I sure as hell read a lot of them.

[Jessica]

"shining" or "illustrious" maybe? I don't know, I feel like publishers get bored and pull out the thesaurus sometimes. I guess "stunning debut" doesn't have the same ring the 18th time you write it?

[Nikki]

I guess they're all code for "The writing is pretty and it'll probably make you feel things."

Also, this book is free if you have Prime? Hell yes! When did that become a thing? I stopped using Kindle Unlimited when I got onto Overdrive, so I had no idea Amazon was doing this.

[Jessica]

I don't know! I thought Prime and Unlimited were separate things. Or you could get like one a month through Prime but Unlimited was, as the name said, unlimited per month? I'm not sure.

[Jessica]

I have some thoughts when everyone's read &/or I can get to a desktop computer to use the spoiler tag lol

[Nikki]

I, uh, started it around midnight on the 8th and finished it (after sleep) later on the 8th. I zipped right through this one. I also have thoughts. How many are we waiting on to finish?

[Jessica]

I'm not entirely sure who's actually reading or just said they wanted to.
Once I got into it, I did like it and it was a fast read.
(view spoiler)[So, what's the deal with Lacy/Laney whoever? Do we think she's actually human or a mystical whatever?

I definitely didn't see Phil being their brother, I got a creepy banging James' mum vibe from him, so I figured just mom's much younger lover and they were calling him "cousin" to explain him. But it does make sense to be a brother.

I liked their dad's twist of taking mom's name to join her family. I do wonder what his deal with James and Thomas was, why he was SO angry with them all the time growing up. For Aimee to know he beat the boys and then him to have such a flip to "oh, maybe I should have let James paint, but Claire didn't want me to" seemed a bit odd.

I had guessed pretty early on that Phil had assaulted either James or Aimee as the basis for her hatred of him. So that wasn't a huge surprise to me.

Ditto Carlos/James' amnesia and plastic surgery. I though him having kids was a nice bit of keeping him in Mexico.

I'm very glad I didn't read the blurb for Everything We Left Behind before I read this because HUGE SPOILERS just in the blurb. (hide spoiler)]