Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review.
Well, this was a book. I don’t even know what to say except there was a reason why this one took me a while to get through and read. It was just dense. I got tired of the long winded chapters via Quinn and Lacie. I felt like there was just way too much going on and not enough at the same time. I think in the end the book jumps two years and I did not give a crap. The ending was a wash for me. I think some people will read it one way or the other and try to find a happy ending there, I just felt glad I was finally done. I just felt like most of the book was bloated and didn’t really work.
And I wanted there to just be more there between Lacie and Derek. He felt like a cartoon villain of a husband and I just didn’t get why no one ever really seemed to call him out for what he was doing and saying.
There was no there there between Lacie and Quinn. The latter relationship felt really tacked on and so not believable. I think even Netflix wouldn’t try to bring this book to life because it just started to read more and more absurd after a while. And I think I should have felt something for these two characters when you read everything they go through, but I just found both characters to be so flat I just didn’t care how things ended.
“All This Can Be True” well that title is said not once, not twice, but I believe four times by the two characters. This book follows Lacie Johnson. She’s flying back with her husband Derek and realizes after 20 something years, she wants a divorce. Unfortunately, Derek has a stroke and Lacie is left in limbo and trying to hold things together for her two daughters. While waiting on news about her husband, she runs into a former musician, Quinn. Quinn has a connection to Lacie’s family, and just doesn’t know it. The book follows the two women as they find themselves needing each other more and both dealing with the grief they are both respectively feeling concerning their pasts and presents.
Eh, I said enough about this two above. There’s no there there.
The book flow was pretty bad. It jumps back and forth between Lacie and Quinn and then of course their points of views about each other and their other friendships/relationships/etc.
The ending takes a while to get to. I think if I was invested I would have cared more, but instead just felt over it at the 25 percent mark of this book.