Name: We Were Never Here
ISBN: 9780606413855

Jennifer Gilmore

In this exquisitely written and emotionally charged young adult debut, Jennifer Gilmore explores how sometimes the wounds you can't see are the most painful. Did you know your entire life can change in an instant? For sixteen-year-old Lizzie Stoller

We Were Never Here

Siya S

DNF at 16%


  
    She’s smiling. Her hair doesn’t smile with her, and she scratches under it. 
Thelma has a wig.
  





  She’s going to tell me I’m dying, I think. I will never see my friends again. I will never cuddle with Mabel and fall asleep to her snoring. I will never go to Spain or any Spanish-speaking country, not Mexico or Venezuela or Costa Rica or Puerto Rico, which I know is not a country.



WAIT, WHATTTTT???

WHATTTTTT????

Good luck telling THAT to the Puerto Ricans, you ignorant twat. 

I know I'm being narrow-minded. DNF at 16%? Who the hell does that? Well, me obviously. I mean, if I have to put up with this clueless, oblivious, ignorant, unlikable, extremely annoying teenager for another 84% I think I'd be, you know, dead. A bit melodramatic, I know. But that's the card our main character was going for, so don't blame me. 


  So I settle back, and then the worst thing happens. I can’t set the iPad on my belly. I can’t sit up to watch it. And for the brief moment that I do this anyway, looking at the screen makes me sick to my stomach.


WOW CANT'T SET THE iPAD ON YOUR TUMMY IS YOUR IDEA OF 'WORST THING'???? Are you fucking kidding me right now???? HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF FAMINE OR POVERTY OR SYRIAN ASYLUM SEEKERS YOU DUMBASS ENTITLED PRINCESS?



Shit. I'm so pissed off right now. Why did I even think reviewing/ recapping this book was a good idea anyway. 

So yeah Lizzie Stoller was sick (with something I really don't care to find out anymore). She was a boring, brooding, melodramatic teen who was taking everything for granted. Being a privileged 1st world teen as she was, all she could think about on her death bed was jealousy over her friend's hook-ups and whether she'd ever be pretty enough to draw attention from just about any random boys on the planet. 

Speaking of random boys, she became insta-obsessed over a guy with his therapy dog right from the first encounter. And I skimmed through and found out she claimed she was in love with him after meeting the guy for like 3 times. Hormones could be so cruel sometimes. 


  How lucky am I, I think, that this guy works here, now? The crazy unlucky part comes back quickly, though, because here he is standing up and I am lying here, a mess, a mess who fell on her face in front of him. 

Who is Connor? He is incredibly cute, but I can see he also bites his nails really, really short. Like he hardly has any nails. That is never a good quality in a boy, I think,


I don't think you gonna miss anything much by not reading this book. I mean, if you're into sneak-peaking into the head of an evidently self-absorb girl who was all brooding by day and hungrying for attention from boys by night, then be my guest. She's one-dimensional, boring and vain. I'm proud to say I do not care about her. Worst main character I've come across in a while. 

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