Can’t Wait Wednesday – ALL WE COULD HAVE BEEN by T.E. Carter
“Waiting On” Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted at Breaking the Spine, which encourages fellow bloggers to spotlight upcoming releases that we’re excited about. It is a meme that I have loved participating in for over a year now, but as Jill is no longer actively posting, from now on I’ll just be linking to Can’t Wait Wednesday, hosted by Tressa at Wishful Endings, which is a spinoff of the original WoW meme.
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My selection for this week is All We Could Have Been by T.E. Carter. I’m excited for this one because Carter’s last novel I Stop Somewhere was such a powerful and hard-hitting read, and based on this synopsis, I’m expecting a similar experience with the new book.
ALL WE COULD HAVE BEEN by T.E. Carter
Publication Date: April 23, 2019
From Goodreads:
Five years ago, Lexie walked home from school after her older brother failed to pick her up. When she entered her house, her brother sat calmly, waiting for the police to come arrest him for the heinous crime he had just committed.
Treated like a criminal herself, Lexie now moves from school to school hiding who she is—who she’s related to. She struggles with loving her brother, the PTSD she now suffers from, and wanting to just live a normal life. But how can she be normal when she can’t even figure out how to just live?
This is a powerful look at the assumptions we make about people. Lexie’s emotional journey to separate her brother’s horrific act from herself is stunning and heartbreaking. This is Lexie’s story and journey—not her brother’s—and it will stay with you long after you turn the last page.
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I’d love to hear what upcoming book releases you’re waiting on this Wednesday? Leave me your link in the comments below and I’ll stop by and check out your CWW selection for this week. 🙂
No wonder you can’t wait for this one. It’s an excellent choice and I hope it lives up to that intrigue.
I hope so too, thanks!
This sounds heartbreaking and like it might have one or two lessons to teach us all about growing up. A novel spin on a coming of age story. Great pick! I also love the cover…
Here’s mine: https://bookblather.wordpress.com/2019/01/09/cant-wait-wednesday-only-a-breath-apart/
I really like the cover too.
What an interesting premise – when a crime is committed, we so often seem to focus on the criminal and the victim and their family, but what about the criminal’s family? They must be affected, too. Great pick.
Thanks! Yeah, I thought it was an interesting perspective since it’s one that we don’t normally think about.
Hmmm…. Sounds like this one could be really interesting.
My Waiting on Wednesday
I hope so. 🙂
Wow, I just want to know what “heinous crime” he committed! I guess I’ll have to read it to find out. Great choice!
Right? I really want to know too!
I love powerful and hard hitting, Suzanne, and it sounds like I need to check out the author’s other book too!
That other book was such an emotional read for me. I remember being so angry and upset about what was happening to the main character.
this one sounds powerful indeed! We often forget that the families of perpetrators are as affected or more than the families of victims! They suffer a loss too and get no sympathy
Exactly. I think it presents a unique perspective.
This does sound very intense and hard-hitting, I’ll have to keep my eye out for it! Great pick!
Thanks!
I still haven’t read this author’s other novel. It does sound like this one is going to be a very powerful read. I will have to give it a try myself. One more for the TBR! 😉
Right? I seem to have added quite a few to my TBR today too. 🙂
Oh, this sounds really good and definitely a book that will stick with you. Thanks for sharing!
You’re welcome! 🙂
Suzanne this seems a fantastic one! I have one of her other books on my shelf still unread but you reminded me that I need to read it!!!
I hope it’s a good read for you!
Wow this does sound like a powerful read. what an awful position to be in for the protagonist.
I was thinking the same thing.
This sounds like it will be such an intense read. Gave me the chills!
Right? Same here!
Carter’s last book left me an emotional mess, so obviously I need to read more of TE Carter books.
Haha, right? The last one wrecked me so I’m sure this one will too.
This sounds heartbreaking–and so good! Adding this to my wish list.
Hope you enjoy it!
I hope this book turns out to be as hard-hitting and powerful as you’re hoping it will be!
Me too, thanks!
Oh my, Suzanne, this sounds beautiful — and heart-wrenching. I enjoy stories like this, with a different POV on a familiar-ish sort of trope.
Same here and this is definitely a perspective we don’t often get.