A review by bookishlychar
Things I Wanted to Say, But Never Did by Monica Murphy

challenging dark sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

This book has so many different things that interest me. There are secrets, lies, passion, hate and chaos. Summer and Whit are very similar, and each feels broken for different reasons. The character growth throughout this book was pretty amazing. We have two teens who move from being selfish and not understanding of themselves to these people who accept themselves and love each other fiercely. 

This book has A LOT of smut. Almost every chapter, or second chapter had smut. That is fine, but I would like to have more feelings associated with it. 

One thing that I struggled with is there is an on-page near sexual assault and Whit (MMC) blames Summer (FMC) for the SA because of the way she dressed. He made this big speech about no meaning no to the perpetrator, but at the same time, blamed Summer. I didn't get it.


With the negative, there were still things I liked. I want to check out other books by Monica Murphy. 

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