Once upon a time when I was a better blogger, I had signed the blog up for an account with NetGalley. I didn't follow the recommendations for NetGalley and I requested far more than I realized than I should have. Not realizing that I would be approved for a decent amount of what I requested. This caused me to become so overwhelmed with books that I just stopped reading all together. I'm not talking about days here, either. I'm talking months.
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| Cover art was copied from book listing on Amazon |
Safe to say that now I'm no longer overwhelmed with books and here I am reading this book months later....
The Girl He Used to Know is a book that I really enjoyed. I thought of this book as being a coming of age tale. Yes, I know, the main character, Annika is a 32 year old woman who's reflecting on her life 10 years ago. When you think of a coming of age tale, you think of teenagers, not a woman who's in her early 20s but let me explain.
Annika is a young woman, who may fall on to the Autism Spectrum. She had to learn and train herself for social interactions, with her friends and with her boyfriend. There's other stuff that took place in the book, that once you read it, it'll make sense as to why I say this.
As I digress.
I really enjoyed this ARC. It held my interest and I enjoyed seeing the progress that Annika was able to make.
The ending of the book blew me away. It wasn't something that I expected but given that the book took place in 2001 during August and September, I shouldn't have been that the events of September 11th were a part of this book. Being brought to the time when individuals didn't know what was going with their loved ones who were working in the Twin Towers, near or in the City at that time, was very surreal.
I'm giving The Girl He Used to Know 4 coffee beans out of 5 coffee beans.
Catch ya'll later!
~ Jillian
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