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** spoiler alert ** 2.5⭐️ Not for me

I loved The Last Thing He Told Me by this author but unfortunately The Night We Lost Him was a miss for me. The back of the book says this is an epic love story and riveting mystery and I didn’t feel like either applied. It’s hard for me to comment much about why it didn’t work without getting into spoiler territory, so keep scrolling to read more with all the spoilers.

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So I can’t say that when I think of an epic love story I would ever think it’s a man and a woman who married other people but cheat on them with each other for their entire lives. I also didn’t at all understand why she wouldn’t just marry him - she turned him down over and over making cryptic remarks like go fix the right things. 🙄 either be together or don’t but this was overly complicated and nonsensical, not to mention how it treated their respective spouses. Romanticizing an affair that never really needed to be an affair just isn’t an epic love story to me.

Moving on! Our MC has a wonderful fiancé who she absolutely is sure she loves, but she’s treating him horribly and distancing herself from him bc *checks notes* her parents died and apparently she didn’t realize people you love could die and leave you so therefore she now must be afraid of commitment. Right. Honestly Jack deserved better than her and I really wanted him to just move on and find someone else.

There is SO MUCH internal thought, which isn’t my fav, but also it was repetitive internal thought which I really do not like. I should call my fiancé but won’t. I shouldn’t talk to this guy but will. My brother is a jerk, or maybe he isn’t, or maybe he is but isn’t always. I miss my dad. I miss my mom. I have abandonment issues. I was frustrated with how many times a simple action would be psychoanalyzed and applying it to life in her internal thoughts, it became tiring after the first few instances. There also were romance side plots which felt unnecessary.

There were some very convenient things that happen to move the plot along. The twists were fairly predictable and the mystery was such a meh resolution. Like really, it wasn’t even a murder it was an oops accident by a small side character? 🫠

Overall I was bored by the mystery, annoyed with all the characters, frustrated by the ridiculous plot and was happy to be done with it. The narration by Julia Whelan on the audiobook was the best thing about this one, and even she couldn’t save this for me.