A review by saturn_rage
All That's Left Unsaid by Tracey Lien

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

This would be a near perfect book for me were it not for the god-awful ending. It’s a cheap cop-out to an otherwise great examination of grief, trauma, and how none of this is simple. Everyone here has suffered and continues to suffer in different ways, and the book has a lot great understanding of how trauma flows across generations. In the same way, you have to make closure for yourself. There’s also so much that resonates for me as a child of abusive parents, and while my experience is clearly different from the one here, it still hits. I do love this, and the penultimate chapter serves as a great ending to the story, and I really wish it just stopped there. But it be. 
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