A review by afox98
What Never Happened by Rachel Howzell Hall

3.0

Coco Weber returns to Catalina Island to care for her aunt, after having been gone for years after a horrific family tragedy on the island. She starts a new job writing obituaries for the island newspaper and tries to recover from the dissolution of her marriage. As she re-adjusts to island life on the cusp of the Covid outbreak, she realizes there are still secrets on the island. The book started off great and I was really interested to see what would happen. But I didn't like her aunt, didn't much like her boss, didn't like most of the characters on the island. And then the plot got convoluted and quite slow. On the plus side, I got to learn more about an area I didn't know anything about before.