"I feel like he has a piece of me that I’ll never get back. His face is broken and full of some sort of loss I feel with him." - Penelope

"Why does the hate have to be layered and complicated? All I want is to straight-up despise this woman and be done with her." - Lincoln 

This book is about two grieving people who've spent a big part of their lives together, they were both misunderstood and just different from Lincoln's perfect family (they tried to be a "perfect" family, but that doesn't exists, nobody is perfect). Everyone deals with grief differently and that was showed in this book.

Penelope grew up in foster care and Lincoln in a "perfect" rich family. So of course they don't always understand each other and they are also grieving. That results in unhealthy coping mechanisms, they both "used" each other for a big part of the book. This book was messy but it was their story and they have a connection that is unique. I really enjoyed the switching between time-lines, that adds a mystery part to the book. 

"We died with him that day. "

This book has 2 time-lines , the past (about their childhood, their complicated "friendship" and about who died and how, in both POV's and when they different ages) and the present, (where you follow Lincoln and Penelope dealing with their grief while living together & having very complicated feelings for each other). This serie is about the Sterling Family trying to navigate life while grieving. 

This book is republished under the name N. Brown (Nicole Dykes her pen name). I received an ARC copy of this book.