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courtneydoss 's review for:
The Regrets
by Amy Bonnaffons
Okay, so I can get behind a good metaphor. But when the metaphor takes all of the fun out of a bad ass idea for a novel, I get a little irritated. Amy Bonnaffons had an amazing premise for her novel, and then she shit the bed with it. Seriously. Like, how can you present an afterlife filled with bureaucracy and The Good Place style fun and then just forget about it in favor of making a rather clumsy point about dating? So, so disappointing.
The book starts out strong with Thomas, the recently deceased love interest of our protagonist Rachel. But then they meet and begin to date, and things go wonky. Without spoiling anything that actually happens in the novel, it essentially becomes a giant metaphor for losing yourself to a relationship, for toxicity and the way past relationships affect us even after they're over. I mean, it probably could have been great, except that it was soooooooo disappointing compared to what I was expecting.
The book starts out strong with Thomas, the recently deceased love interest of our protagonist Rachel. But then they meet and begin to date, and things go wonky. Without spoiling anything that actually happens in the novel, it essentially becomes a giant metaphor for losing yourself to a relationship, for toxicity and the way past relationships affect us even after they're over. I mean, it probably could have been great, except that it was soooooooo disappointing compared to what I was expecting.