A review by matchai
The Light We Lost by Jill Santopolo

Did not finish book. Stopped at 40%.
This book is not romantic at all. It’s deceit, lies, unfaithfulness, obsession, and lust. Whatever happened in this book to the point that I read, was NOT love and no one can convince me otherwise.

  I literally hated everything about the main character, Lucy. Her relationship with Gabe is actually completely insufferable. The fact that she starts to date Darren all the while, she can’t get over Gabe and is willing to drop everything just to see him? Girl, just go see a therapist already. This did not even sound like love to me, it just sounded like an obsession— a teenage obsession, with no real meaning behind it. I couldn’t even feel their connection when they first  met. It was like girl meets boy, then *boom* they’re in love with each other. They kiss once and have a date for half a day and then she thinks about him for the rest of her life? And she then continues to date Darren knowing she doesn’t even really love him?

She’s soo insufferable and I literally cannot even force myself to continue reading the rest of the book about their miserable relationship. 

I ended up reading some other spoilers and found out that Gabe died and I’m honestly glad it ended with his death so it could finally end their stupid obsession with each other.
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