Things We Never Got Over Book Review

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Things We Never Got Over is a romance told from the perspective of Naomi who’s new to town and looking to escape her past, and Knox who thinks the last thing he needs is a woman like Naomi in his life. When they meet, they cannot stand each other, but when Naomi finds she has to look after her niece, called Waylay, after her sister runs off, Knox gets roped into their lives. Knox is hiding secrets of his own, and slowly, the two of them realise they might just have found something that’s been missing.

I normally love a romance, even a slushy, predictable one. But this was in a whole other league of bad. What the characters thought to themselves and then the actions they made completely contradicted each other. Not only were they completely two dimensional but it felt like the author had tried to ram as many tropes and stereotypes into this book and possible.

All the descriptions of Knox felt like they were written with the male gaze which is interesting given the author is a woman. I didn’t think she did a very good job of giving Naomi much of a personality, and the interactions between Naomi and Knox felt semi-problematic and just icky.

Everyone in the book, except Waylay, was thoroughly unlikeable and while this felt like a romance for about 3/4 of the book, in the final few chapters, for some reason it became some kind of heist-thriller!? Honestly, I don’t think the book knew what genre it was supposed to be.

Unsurprisingly, I will not be recommending this book to anyone. I don’t even think it’s the kind of book that I didn’t enjoy, but someone else might – I genuinely don’t understand how ANYONE could enjoy this!? Safe to say, I won’t be reading any other books by Lucy Score…