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Pieces of Us
Eve Ainsworth
Publication Date: February 27th, 2025
Canelo
308 Pages
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Genres: Women’s Fiction | Romance
I found this book incredibly frustrating for a few reasons. For one, I don’t really like love triangles add in the fact that these are supposed to be the best of friends just made it worse and another thing I hate in romance books is the miscommunication trope. I was a little forgiving at first because they were so young but when you’re 28 and dying not telling your best friend the truth is just heartless. Lottie just hoped her jar of joy tricks works and her two friends would just happen to meet up and find out what really happened all those years ago.
I hated every character in this story they are petty, self-centered and at times downright cruel. Being drunk is not a good reason to fuck your best friend’s boyfriend and then lie to him about you. I liked the idea of the book, leaving a jar for a loved one filled with happy memories but you should do it as a kindness not to ease your own guilt over the multitude of times you failed your so-called best friend. I also liked the two points of view and the two timelines. We get Eve in the present and Lottie in the past. I loved knowing what was going on in both their heads at different times.
This book did not leave me feeling sad about a young lady’s death, I almost felt like “fuck around and find out” where Lottie was concerned. Unless the author set out to have me hate every character in her book she failed to impress me. I can see why some would like it but for me, it was just infuriating.
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the Advance Readers Copy.
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