A review by leel154
If He Had Been with Me by Laura Nowlin

5.0

This book would have been everything to me if I read when I was in high school. Yet, it was still impactful. I read this in one setting and could not get over how engrossing and real it was. We follow Finny and Autumn throughout high school with flashbacks to their childhood and watch them experience life together and how they grew apart. Autumn was relatable, but I LOVED Finny.

While it is foreshadowed in chapter 1 what happens in the end, it was still completely devastating. To think that at that point Finny and Autumn would have finally been together after so long. This was the ultimate friends to lovers/right person wrong time story. Is she pregnant???? Did she survive her grief???? I’m glad I read this when I did, I couldn’t imagine waiting for a sequel. But I cannot wait to read from Finny’s POV and get the entire flushed out story