Laura Dave – Cannonball Read 17

Communication is key

The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave

December 29, 2022 by Sophia 4 Comments

I needed another audiobook to listen to during my commute. I found The Last Thing He Told Me (2021) by Laura Dave because it was immediately available at my library. I picked it because it looked interesting, had good reviews, and was even chosen for Reese Witherspoon’s book club. I thought it was all right; the story sucked me in, and it was easy to follow. The characters were well done, but I was sometimes frustrated by their decisions in furtherance of the plot. In the end, […]

Quick breezy thriller

The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave

September 5, 2022 by Wanderlustful Leave a Comment

Hannah is a newly married thirty-something year old, still smitten with her husband Owen, and largely loving their life in the Sam Francisco Bay Area. They live on a houseboat in Sausalito and she spends her days making hand turned custom wooden furniture while Owen works for an up and coming tech start up in the city where he is the right hand to the CEO. The only friction is between Hannah and Bailey, Owen’s daughter from a previous marriage, who has yet to warm […]

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The last thing he told me by Laura Dave

August 21, 2021 by The Book Omnivore Leave a Comment

Sometimes I read two books at the same time, one in audiobook format and the other one on paper. I usually make sure the two don’t belong to the same genre to avoid confusion and/or unjust comparisons. So I’ll usually read one fiction and one non-fiction, for instance. This time I started listening to Laura Dave’s The Last Thing He Told Me almost at the same time as I started reading my beloved Tana French’s The Trespasser, and I couldn’t help comparing the two. That’s […]

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