I received a copy of This is What Goodbye Looks Like by Oliva Rivers from Red Sparrow Press via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review, this has in no way influenced my thoughts and feelings about the book.
I picked this book up on a whim – I hadn’t heard about it until I say in on Netgalley, but something about the synopsis caught my eye, and I am glad that I did. Because I really enjoyed it.
This is What Goodbye Looks Like follows Lea Holder as she tries to figure out how a family that lost a member could stand together so well, while hers in falling apart. Lea just doesn’t feel guilty for the accident, but for lying.
Her mother was the cause of the accident that killed the other drive, left her sister in a coma and caused her to walk …show more content…
She has so much going on in her life that she doesn’t even know where to start. She just wants her life to go back to how it was, but it never will.
I adored her love for her sister; she would do literally everything for her and it was beautiful. Her relationship with her parents and older brother are a different. Lea has yet to forgive her mother for the accident and her father for making her lie. It was hard to read about how Lea was feeling about the accident, she wanted to tell the truth; but she also loved her mother. Add to the mix her brother not bothering to call her or return her calls.
Then there is Seth, brother of the victim and someone that Lea befriends. There relationship is slow and steady. It was really nice to see that it didn’t turn into a romantic relationship as soon as it meet, like it took quite a lot of the book before it was really hinted at – and I loved that. However, the whole time all I could think about was how things are going to turn out when the truth is revealed.
Seth has a lot of anger towards Lea’s family. He want to see her mother in jail so he can finally get his peace, but it also hunted by his brothers passing and makes it his mission that he finish his last project so that he graduates
I picked this book up on a whim – I hadn’t heard about it until I say in on Netgalley, but something about the synopsis caught my eye, and I am glad that I did. Because I really enjoyed it.
This is What Goodbye Looks Like follows Lea Holder as she tries to figure out how a family that lost a member could stand together so well, while hers in falling apart. Lea just doesn’t feel guilty for the accident, but for lying.
Her mother was the cause of the accident that killed the other drive, left her sister in a coma and caused her to walk …show more content…
She has so much going on in her life that she doesn’t even know where to start. She just wants her life to go back to how it was, but it never will.
I adored her love for her sister; she would do literally everything for her and it was beautiful. Her relationship with her parents and older brother are a different. Lea has yet to forgive her mother for the accident and her father for making her lie. It was hard to read about how Lea was feeling about the accident, she wanted to tell the truth; but she also loved her mother. Add to the mix her brother not bothering to call her or return her calls.
Then there is Seth, brother of the victim and someone that Lea befriends. There relationship is slow and steady. It was really nice to see that it didn’t turn into a romantic relationship as soon as it meet, like it took quite a lot of the book before it was really hinted at – and I loved that. However, the whole time all I could think about was how things are going to turn out when the truth is revealed.
Seth has a lot of anger towards Lea’s family. He want to see her mother in jail so he can finally get his peace, but it also hunted by his brothers passing and makes it his mission that he finish his last project so that he graduates