Once Was Lost

This book built up some pretty high stakes ... and then took them all away. Sam's crisis of faith didn't feel that authentic to me, either. I could easily have read an entire book about just her family situation, but these other plots made it feel both overstuffed and somehow too slow? I don't know.

I wonder how you're supposed to know the exact moment when there's no more hope.

— About losing faith in everything you believed. This was such a good read, and the main character was really relatable. I was just bothered that it kind of turned into a mystery/thriller at one point, but other than that it was really good.