Description
An Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestseller.
From the bestselling author of Everything We Keep comes the highly anticipated sequel. Told from one man’s two perspectives, Everything We Left Behind effortlessly blends suspense, mystery, and romance in an exploration of loss, resilience, and the compelling need to protect the ones we love at all cost.
Two months before his wedding, financial executive James Donato chased his trade-laundering brother Phil to Mexico, only to be lost at sea and presumed dead. Six and a half years later, he emerges from a dissociative fugue state to find he’s been living in Oaxaca as artist Carlos Dominguez, widower and father of two sons, with his sister-in-law Natalya Hayes, a retired professional surfer, helping to keep his life afloat. But his fiancée, Aimee Tierney, the love of his life, has moved on. She’s married and has a child of her own.
Devastated, James and his sons return to California. But Phil is scheduled for release from prison, and he’s determined to find James, who witnessed something in Mexico that could land Phil back in confinement. Under mounting family pressure, James flees with his sons to Kauai, seeking refuge with Natalya. As James begins to unravel the mystery of his fractured identity, danger is never far behind, and Natalya may be the only person he can trust.
Review
I reviewed the first in this series here and I was keen for the sequel. However, I have been a little disappointed with it.
It was good to find out the story from the other side. In the first book we follow Aimee as she eventually tracks down James who is living as Carlos. In this book we get to find out the story from the perspective of Carlos.
The first half of the book I thought was very protracted, I understand there has to be some overlap with the first book but I felt like it laboured the point. I did wonder if this would have been better just added onto the end of the first book. I kept with it and then the twists and turns began and I was glad I had stuck with it.
It certainly raised a lot of questions in my mind, especially around the children who know James as Carlos and now have a completely new Daddy!
You do need to read the first book before reading this one. For me this one was a little more romantic than the first, far too much for my taste. It also flipped back and forth so much that if I put it down and picked it up again I got confused as to which timeline I was in.
If you read the first book then for completeness you probably want to read this and find the full story. However, the end is left with another glimpse of more to come and there is a third book........
I'm giving this book 3 out of 5 stars. My thanks to Netgalley for the ARC.
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