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The Day She Cried by K Webster
dark
emotional
sad
tense
medium-paced
4.0
This book is a rollercoaster. You will hate the characters, you will feel for the characters and you might even fall in love with them too. I wasn’t too sure what I was getting into when I started this one. I was worried because I had started it and then put it down and didn’t pick it up for a week which is WILD for me. I do have a lot going on in my life so that is most likely why. Me problem and not the book problem. It’s a K Webster so I knew I needed to give it a fair chance. I am so glad I did. The chockhold this story had on me blew my mind. Once it time jumped a year I was completely invested in the story. There is something about a guy who bullies the girl but then sees her walking alone in the rain and gives her a ride that just wins me over. He still hates her but he doesn’t want her to be in danger either. SWOON. The anger is so real in this book as well as the grief. I caught myself crying and didn’t realize that would happen. It does go back and forth with their feelings for each other and that annoys me. It probably could have been shorter than it was. This book is hard to talk about without spoiling. I think you should go in blind.
Below I'm going to do a play by play of almost everything that happened for people who don't want to read it but are curious. I'm going to try and start doing this with most books I read because my memory is awful and I want to be able to look back and remind myself.
How weird would it be to fall in love with a girl whose twin has been in love with you for a long time. Raven and Rome are twins and have a rough home life. Rome gets beat by his father and Raven is always trying to save her brother. Rome thinks Raven is a ray of sunshine and doesn’t want to bring her down with his depressing shit but little does he know she struggles too. Raven meets “Logan” online and Logan just so happens to be a cheerleader at her and Rome’s high school. It was all a joke that Whitney came up with for Courtney to be Logan and make Raven fall in love with “him”. Courtney and Whitney are the popular cheerleaders in the school and let me just say Whitney is the biggest bitch ever!! Rome has had his eye on Courtney for a long time but has kept his distance. Raven and Courtney (Logan) get really close online and actually fall in love with each other. Courtney doesn’t look at it as a game anymore and Whitney gets super jealous about it. A little bit later Courtney and Whitney go to a party and Courtney takes drugs and gets drunk and sleeps with 2 guys. She soon finds out that Whitney recorded it and sent it to Courtney. The next morning when Courtney wakes up she realizes what happened and rushes to Raven’t job and finds out that she unalived herself. There is a whole court hearing and a shit ton of money spent. Fast forward a year and the whole town calls Courtney a murderer including Rome. Rome decides to make Courtney’s life a living hell along with his buddies. The back and forth with his feelings get a little annoying but to be fair this guy has been through hell and back. Rome’s abusive rather died and his sister is no longer alive so he’s been through it. Raven walks home in the rain from work one day and he sees her and tries to give her a ride. She refuses because he had just been cruel to her earlier at her work and she knows he hates her. Rome gets home pissed that she wouldnt allow him to give her a ride and he hears thunder. So he grabs his dog and goes to where she is and makes her get into the car. He ends up saying he will fix her car if she will help at his mechanic shop. He actually bought that place with the money they won from the case. Which was her families money. I thought that was wild! Rome is constantly trying to fight his attraction to Courtney but ultimately his dick wins and they start screwing around. Its so much back and forth and got pretty old. I personally would have liked that cut down and in return make the book shorter but whatever. Rome kept Raven’s room exactly the same and he keeps finding Courtney in her room and gets so pisssed. Courtney ends up finding Raven’s journal and starts reading it. She goes into detail about all the abuse Rome indured throughout the years. She also talks about going and seeing a lawyer who just so happens to be Whitney’s dad. He is a creep. Raven and this man have a whole ass affair and he doesn’t even help her. In this journal they find out more than they bargained for. Rome and Courtney end up “breaking up” when his buddy gets with Whitney and makes a sex tape and he tells Rome that it was him and Courtney and this dumbass believed it. It jumps 4 months and Rome has stalked Courtney all those months. He decides enough is enough and he wants his girl. Mind you even when they were together he wasn’t the nicest to her. Trust me if you read this book you might not ever like Rome. Rome finds Courtney with another guy walking around and thinks its her boyfriend, its not. They end up going somewhere to talk and he quickly finds out that Courtney is almost 5 months pregnant. Oh but it gets better its not ONE but TWO babies. I had a feeling that was coming but its not my favorite trope so I tried to ignore it. Rome and Courtney decide to clean out Raven’s room and come across the journal again. Rome reads all the things that Courntey had already read and then it gets the the parts where she meets “Logan”. Turns out Raven actually knew that Logan was Courtney, apparently she gave herself a way. The first thought in her mind was “he is going to be pissed” because she knew her brother had a crush on her. Raven then continues on in her journal saying that Whitney’s dad found her and threated to bring Courtney down. Raven had a sex tape of her and him and he wanted her to delete it or he would make Courtney’s life a living hell. She says “Goodbye Journal, I have a plan”. When they think its over they turn the page and its a damn letter to Courney, I freaking lost it! Remember how I said that Courtney gave herself away when she was Logan? Apparently Courtney and Raven had the same biology class and Courtney told Raven “ Do you ever feel like fate pushes two people together on purpose? Like it knows one isn’t as brainy as the other?”. When Courtney was being Logan she said “ Do you ever feel like fate pushes two people together on purpose? Like it knows one isn’t as strong as the other?” That’s when she knew and she was heartbroken to know that the girl of her brothers dreams was the “guy” messaging her and that she had fallen in love with her. Then she wrote Rome a letter explaining that she didn’t know Courtney was Logan in the beginning but once she did she as already too far in. That Courtney draws you in with her golden locks and flawless smile. Raven also mentions how Rome would get so mad when Raven would try and eat their dads food. Apparently Rome had been poisoning his father and she is pretty sure her mother was trying to do the same thing. She flushed it and threw the bottle away so nobody would get caught and let nature take its course. Raven left an email and password for Rome to get all the videos she had of the attorney to turn his ass in. She ends the letter by saying “ PS- Please tell Courtney this is not her fault. I can see where she’ll think it was, but its not. This is so much bigger than her. Tell her I loved her until the end. Now its your turn, big bro. Don’t let me down” Chapter 23 was Raven’s POV and its her and the attorney. Its them fighting and the attorney threatening her. He’s telling her to off herself because nobody cares about her. He is terrified what she has on him would get out and he is hoping she will just go away. It talks about how she unalives herself (pills) and how she hopes the plan works. Before the pills kick in she writes a letter to her brother and dad saying she’s sorry and how she can’t take this life anymore. There is something so awful about reading somones last days. I read so many fucked up books but waiting for the pills Raven took to kick in was absolutely heartbreaking. I wanted to reach through my kindle and help and and convenience her that there has to be another way than this. The epilogue jumps 18 months later and its the trail with the attorney and he was found GUILTY!!! This fucker was married for 27 years and most likely molesting young girls for years. The books ends with a steamy scene and then their 2 kids waking up and wanting daddy’s pancakes. Courtney is mad because they always want Rome and not her. It was a cute ending.
Below I'm going to do a play by play of almost everything that happened for people who don't want to read it but are curious. I'm going to try and start doing this with most books I read because my memory is awful and I want to be able to look back and remind myself.
How weird would it be to fall in love with a girl whose twin has been in love with you for a long time. Raven and Rome are twins and have a rough home life. Rome gets beat by his father and Raven is always trying to save her brother. Rome thinks Raven is a ray of sunshine and doesn’t want to bring her down with his depressing shit but little does he know she struggles too. Raven meets “Logan” online and Logan just so happens to be a cheerleader at her and Rome’s high school. It was all a joke that Whitney came up with for Courtney to be Logan and make Raven fall in love with “him”. Courtney and Whitney are the popular cheerleaders in the school and let me just say Whitney is the biggest bitch ever!! Rome has had his eye on Courtney for a long time but has kept his distance. Raven and Courtney (Logan) get really close online and actually fall in love with each other. Courtney doesn’t look at it as a game anymore and Whitney gets super jealous about it. A little bit later Courtney and Whitney go to a party and Courtney takes drugs and gets drunk and sleeps with 2 guys. She soon finds out that Whitney recorded it and sent it to Courtney. The next morning when Courtney wakes up she realizes what happened and rushes to Raven’t job and finds out that she unalived herself. There is a whole court hearing and a shit ton of money spent. Fast forward a year and the whole town calls Courtney a murderer including Rome. Rome decides to make Courtney’s life a living hell along with his buddies. The back and forth with his feelings get a little annoying but to be fair this guy has been through hell and back. Rome’s abusive rather died and his sister is no longer alive so he’s been through it. Raven walks home in the rain from work one day and he sees her and tries to give her a ride. She refuses because he had just been cruel to her earlier at her work and she knows he hates her. Rome gets home pissed that she wouldnt allow him to give her a ride and he hears thunder. So he grabs his dog and goes to where she is and makes her get into the car. He ends up saying he will fix her car if she will help at his mechanic shop. He actually bought that place with the money they won from the case. Which was her families money. I thought that was wild! Rome is constantly trying to fight his attraction to Courtney but ultimately his dick wins and they start screwing around. Its so much back and forth and got pretty old. I personally would have liked that cut down and in return make the book shorter but whatever. Rome kept Raven’s room exactly the same and he keeps finding Courtney in her room and gets so pisssed. Courtney ends up finding Raven’s journal and starts reading it. She goes into detail about all the abuse Rome indured throughout the years. She also talks about going and seeing a lawyer who just so happens to be Whitney’s dad. He is a creep. Raven and this man have a whole ass affair and he doesn’t even help her. In this journal they find out more than they bargained for. Rome and Courtney end up “breaking up” when his buddy gets with Whitney and makes a sex tape and he tells Rome that it was him and Courtney and this dumbass believed it. It jumps 4 months and Rome has stalked Courtney all those months. He decides enough is enough and he wants his girl. Mind you even when they were together he wasn’t the nicest to her. Trust me if you read this book you might not ever like Rome. Rome finds Courtney with another guy walking around and thinks its her boyfriend, its not. They end up going somewhere to talk and he quickly finds out that Courtney is almost 5 months pregnant. Oh but it gets better its not ONE but TWO babies. I had a feeling that was coming but its not my favorite trope so I tried to ignore it. Rome and Courtney decide to clean out Raven’s room and come across the journal again. Rome reads all the things that Courntey had already read and then it gets the the parts where she meets “Logan”. Turns out Raven actually knew that Logan was Courtney, apparently she gave herself a way. The first thought in her mind was “he is going to be pissed” because she knew her brother had a crush on her. Raven then continues on in her journal saying that Whitney’s dad found her and threated to bring Courtney down. Raven had a sex tape of her and him and he wanted her to delete it or he would make Courtney’s life a living hell. She says “Goodbye Journal, I have a plan”. When they think its over they turn the page and its a damn letter to Courney, I freaking lost it! Remember how I said that Courtney gave herself away when she was Logan? Apparently Courtney and Raven had the same biology class and Courtney told Raven “ Do you ever feel like fate pushes two people together on purpose? Like it knows one isn’t as brainy as the other?”. When Courtney was being Logan she said “ Do you ever feel like fate pushes two people together on purpose? Like it knows one isn’t as strong as the other?” That’s when she knew and she was heartbroken to know that the girl of her brothers dreams was the “guy” messaging her and that she had fallen in love with her. Then she wrote Rome a letter explaining that she didn’t know Courtney was Logan in the beginning but once she did she as already too far in. That Courtney draws you in with her golden locks and flawless smile. Raven also mentions how Rome would get so mad when Raven would try and eat their dads food. Apparently Rome had been poisoning his father and she is pretty sure her mother was trying to do the same thing. She flushed it and threw the bottle away so nobody would get caught and let nature take its course. Raven left an email and password for Rome to get all the videos she had of the attorney to turn his ass in. She ends the letter by saying “ PS- Please tell Courtney this is not her fault. I can see where she’ll think it was, but its not. This is so much bigger than her. Tell her I loved her until the end. Now its your turn, big bro. Don’t let me down” Chapter 23 was Raven’s POV and its her and the attorney. Its them fighting and the attorney threatening her. He’s telling her to off herself because nobody cares about her. He is terrified what she has on him would get out and he is hoping she will just go away. It talks about how she unalives herself (pills) and how she hopes the plan works. Before the pills kick in she writes a letter to her brother and dad saying she’s sorry and how she can’t take this life anymore. There is something so awful about reading somones last days. I read so many fucked up books but waiting for the pills Raven took to kick in was absolutely heartbreaking. I wanted to reach through my kindle and help and and convenience her that there has to be another way than this. The epilogue jumps 18 months later and its the trail with the attorney and he was found GUILTY!!! This fucker was married for 27 years and most likely molesting young girls for years. The books ends with a steamy scene and then their 2 kids waking up and wanting daddy’s pancakes. Courtney is mad because they always want Rome and not her. It was a cute ending.