BOOK REVIEW: WHEN WE WERE BY ALEXANDRA DIAZ

When We Were

by Alexandra Diaz

EBook edition

Published September 29th 2015 (Previously Published as OF ALL THE STUPID THINGS)

MY GOODREADS RATING 2/5 STARS

(Thanks to The Studio, a Paper Lantern Lit imprint and NetGalley, I received an ebook copy of this book for free to review.)

“What if Brent cheated on me? With a guy?”

This book is about a group of three girlfriends one of which is a girl named Tara who finds out her boyfriend may be cheating on her with a guy.    The three friends all play a specific role. There is Tara who is the quintessential “popular” girl, there is Whitney Blaire who is the “snobby” girl, and Pinkie who is more of the “people pleaser type. The book is more about how the friends react to the rumor than the actual rumor itself. The rumor seems to tear their friendships apart.

I’ve read many books where the main character is being cheated on, but none where they are being cheated on by a member of the same sex as the cheater. It made for an interesting change. You could see how the reactions of the main character and the questions running through their mind differ and are also similar to other cheating situations. I like that the book had multiple points of views and that the chapters for the most part were pretty concise. I also like that each character was facing their own issues unrelated to the rumor, it gave you a chance to connect with at least one of the characters. 

That being said I didn’t connect with any of the characters and I thought the plot was underdeveloped. It seemed to jump from one situation to the next with no real flow in my opinion. The book was just not my cup of tea, while there were things I liked about it there were more I didn’t, mainly the way the story took these strange twist and turns.