A review by rainee_deverell
Lost on Me by Veronica Raimo

reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

I mean, the main character is the definition of “unreliable narrator”. And I liked how it was up to the reader to decide to feel sympathy or anger with the main characters lies and omissions - for me, I feel more of the former. I found the change between the character making strategic changes to her retellings/memories to these alterations happening without explanation very interesting to read. This change coincided with the main character considering a traumatic event in her past which is never detailed enough to let the reader know what truely happens - and by the time we learn of the event we aren’t sure if it’s just another lie/embellishment or the truth. And neither does the character. I think it is a very sympathetic portrayal of a lost human who deserves more than what they received and has developed and unhealthy coping strategy which is used by all of us to some degree (from white lies to fake identities)… plus the prose is beautiful (although I’m sure would be even more so in Italian!).