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A review by devsday
This Used to Be Us by Renée Carlino
3.0
I really liked this story, and feel that it is an important one worth telling. It focuses on the importance of appreciating your partner and the people in our lives.
In this story Danielle and Alex are divorcing after 22 years. Instead of having their teenage boys move between two homes, they get an apartment, where they rotate staying while the other is with the kids at their home. While they have time away from each other, they both have time to really reflect on why they fell in love, what they love about each other, what went wrong. I really liked the reflections and memories of their happy times together. It was messy, and as a child of divorce, it was really relatable. This is definitely a heavier read.
However, the ending which I won’t spoiled really just felt unnecessarily sad and I really enjoyed the book until then. I understood the themes, and didn’t need to be beaten with them.
TW: Pregnancy loss, terminal illness
In this story Danielle and Alex are divorcing after 22 years. Instead of having their teenage boys move between two homes, they get an apartment, where they rotate staying while the other is with the kids at their home. While they have time away from each other, they both have time to really reflect on why they fell in love, what they love about each other, what went wrong. I really liked the reflections and memories of their happy times together. It was messy, and as a child of divorce, it was really relatable. This is definitely a heavier read.
However, the ending which I won’t spoiled really just felt unnecessarily sad and I really enjoyed the book until then. I understood the themes, and didn’t need to be beaten with them.
TW: Pregnancy loss, terminal illness