If Only I Could Tell You by Hannah Beckerman

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*I was given an eARC of this novel from NetGalley in exchange for my honest opinion. All thoughts are my own. 

When I first read the blurb (which said this book would be good for fans of This is Us, I was intrigued. I'm a sucker for a good book that will make me cry. The premise of this story is that sisters Jess and Lilly got into an argument when they were younger and haven't spoken in years. They have daughters the same age who aren't allowed to meet. And their mother wants them all back together. Seems interesting enough, and I wanted to know what the secret was that tore them apart in the first place. 

It took me a while to read this book, because frankly it didn't hold my attention. It wasn't horrible, I just didn't CARE about any of the characters. They were all sort of one dimensional. Lilly is the high powered business woman married to the cheating jerk, while Jess is the hot mess single mom who can barely pay her bills. And that's ALL they were. Things didn't get interesting until the last third of the book. I honestly didn't care that much about the mom's part of the story either. 

As far as the secret goes: I called that not even halfway in. It was absolutely ridiculous. These grown ass women couldn't put their differences aside for five minutes for their dying mother, and their differences were because the younger sister was too stubborn to just ask a question, instead of going around assuming her older sister was a horrible person. 

Needless to say this was NOTHING like This is Us, which had me crying in the first episode. The best I can come up with here was, "meh". 

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