If He Had Been with Me
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Average rating3.6
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Ratings43
Average rating3.6
If he had been with me everything would have been different... I wasn't with Finn on that August night. But I should've been. It was raining, of course. And he and Sylvie were arguing as he drove down the slick road. No one ever says what they were arguing about. Other people think it's not important. They do not know there is another story. The story that lurks between the facts. What they do not know—the cause of the argument—is crucial. So let me tell you...
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“You think it is okay for you to be sad every day. But it is not okay. And you do not deserve it.”
This was so devastatingly beautiful and I feel like it is going to be a story that I will think about for a long time.
I can't actually express how this story actually made me feel. Autumn was such a perfect main character and was so easy to feel attached and connected to.
This story was real and rough around the edges. It showcased what life is really like. It's not a fairy tale and no one is perfect. It managed to captivate so many heavy topics in a way that felt so personal and raw.
I couldn't stop myself from crying because the way the characters thoughts and feelings were written on the page just felt so authentic to me.
I absolutely loved this.
3.5/5 ⭐
I recently reread this so that I could refresh my memory before reading the sequel and I have some thoughts. I don't like the writing. Some people like that it's super simple but everyone talked so grammatically correct and it kind of took me out of the book. I forgot about pretty much everything that happened in the book so most of the “plot twists” were a surprise all over again which was fun. But it felt like nothing really happened for a while as we were introducing characters and going through the high-school drama that I didn't care about eg. the whole table fight thing and all the other couples. It felt like the author was like “what if I wrote a book where one of them tragically dies at the end. That would be cool. Now what to put before that?” Ya know? I wish we got more of Finn and Autumn together. I see why we didn't but it was still disappointing to read all of this buildup of them liking each other and all the relationship drama for him to just die a day after they got together. Finn's death had me in tears. The first time I remember being kind of disappointed and not at all emotional but it hit different this time. I don't like that she wrote in the whole cheating on Sylvie plot point. I get that its “for the drama” or whatever but it still made me feel weird because I hate cheating trope. The ending with the whole suicide attempt pregnancy thing was a decent ending and I was satisfied. It didn't need a sequel just saying.
Dnf at 10% then jumped to the end. This book had such a strange writing style. 1st person present tense but I???ve never felt so detached, possibly because there was hardly any dialogue.
