A review by mervereadsbooks
The Day We Met by Roxie Cooper
3.0
I thought I would drop this book at the beginning. I wasn’t really empathizing with the characters and thought most of the time “it’s not that hard!”. But then I kept reading and thinking, and realized that people make bad decisions all the time, for reasons that you can’t understand but makes sense to them. No situation is black and white, and things can get messy because that’s how life is. And this was what the book was mainly for me, and i liked that it made me think about a topic I don’t particularly like but I liked thinking deeper about it because of the book.
So towards the middle of the book I was constantly thinking about what I thought of the situation for the protagonists and what I would do if I were in their shoes. I liked that active thinking so the book got a bit better and I wanted to finish it. I don’t really have a favorite character in the book, however I do think the male protagonist made all the wrong and stupid decisions, which cost the couple many years. So I am not a big fan of him.
My main problem with this book is the ending. I mean WHY? The ending was super cliche and totally predictable because of the not so subtle foreshadowing. I think the ending destroyed what I had decided this book was about for me. I wish the ending was different, better. Overall the book started as a “barely 3 stars” and worked its way to a “solid 3,5 stars” but with that ending dipped to its original “barely 3 stars” rating again.
So towards the middle of the book I was constantly thinking about what I thought of the situation for the protagonists and what I would do if I were in their shoes. I liked that active thinking so the book got a bit better and I wanted to finish it. I don’t really have a favorite character in the book, however I do think the male protagonist made all the wrong and stupid decisions, which cost the couple many years. So I am not a big fan of him.
My main problem with this book is the ending. I mean WHY? The ending was super cliche and totally predictable because of the not so subtle foreshadowing. I think the ending destroyed what I had decided this book was about for me. I wish the ending was different, better. Overall the book started as a “barely 3 stars” and worked its way to a “solid 3,5 stars” but with that ending dipped to its original “barely 3 stars” rating again.