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A review by okiecozyreader
Pictures of You by Emma Grey
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
4.25
This reminds me of What Alice Forgot.
Evie wakes up in a hospital room and doesn’t remember anything since she was 16 (maybe 13 years previously). She finds out that her husband Oliver died in a car crash they were involved in and she had a few injuries, but memory loss was the biggest hurdle. She also finds out that she doesn’t really have a relationship with her best friend or her parents, and her in-laws are distant.
After the funeral, she thinks she is getting in an uber but realizes the driver is a stranger, or is he? Her credit cards all bounce and she doesn’t know where to go.
The story rotates between the now and then goes back to when Evie met Oliver and Drew when she was 16 and has memory loss, continuing to a more modern day.
The audio was great, rotating between both Evie and Drew (the “uber” driver)’s pov.
I would have liked some of the story to move a little quicker and then learned more about her in-laws and the now timeline at the end of the book.
“No. I know grief. You don't forget details. It's the opposite. Details torment you. They swirl through your mind in a relentless, agonizing loop until you think you'll go mad. The phone call you let go through to voicemail because you were too busy reading a book. The offhandedness of that last text message. The endless, haunting, unchangeable unchangeable dance of all that was said and unsaid as life pushes you further from the opportunity you lost to make things right.” Ch 5
“These are pictures of you, Evie, before your large life closed in. Before it folded in on itself, and then folded in again, over and over, until your dreams ran out of oxygen.” Ch 81
Evie wakes up in a hospital room and doesn’t remember anything since she was 16 (maybe 13 years previously). She finds out that her husband Oliver died in a car crash they were involved in and she had a few injuries, but memory loss was the biggest hurdle. She also finds out that she doesn’t really have a relationship with her best friend or her parents, and her in-laws are distant.
After the funeral, she thinks she is getting in an uber but realizes the driver is a stranger, or is he? Her credit cards all bounce and she doesn’t know where to go.
The story rotates between the now and then goes back to when Evie met Oliver and Drew when she was 16 and has memory loss, continuing to a more modern day.
The audio was great, rotating between both Evie and Drew (the “uber” driver)’s pov.
I would have liked some of the story to move a little quicker and then learned more about her in-laws and the now timeline at the end of the book.
“No. I know grief. You don't forget details. It's the opposite. Details torment you. They swirl through your mind in a relentless, agonizing loop until you think you'll go mad. The phone call you let go through to voicemail because you were too busy reading a book. The offhandedness of that last text message. The endless, haunting, unchangeable unchangeable dance of all that was said and unsaid as life pushes you further from the opportunity you lost to make things right.” Ch 5
“These are pictures of you, Evie, before your large life closed in. Before it folded in on itself, and then folded in again, over and over, until your dreams ran out of oxygen.” Ch 81
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Gaslighting