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The 52 Book Club's Reading Challenge 2022

2022 Build Your Library Reading Challenge

Monday, January 18, 2016
Affecting Never Said Still Missing Something
8:12 PM
(Image from Barnes & Noble)
Except for a shared birthday, fraternal twins Sarah and Annie have little in common. Where Annie is friendly and popular, Sarah is crippled by social anxiety. Annie craves attention, while Sarah shies away from it. Annie lives for beauty pageants, Sarah prefers reading and playing her violin. Annie is the one who shines; it's her around which the family—and the world—has always seemed to revolve. Sarah accepted her second-tier status long ago.

Although Carol Lynch Williams is a must-read author for me, I don't adore every one of her books. Some (The Chosen One; Signed, Skye Harper) I do, some I don't. Never Said belongs in the latter category. Although I enjoyed its format (Annie's sections are in verse; Sarah's are in prose), I just didn't connect all that well with this story. It's affecting, yes, but it also comes off as heavy-handed and depressing. Plus, the characters just lack something, especially the girls' parents, who seem unrealistically cold and over-the-top. In the end, I found Never Said compelling enough to finish (it's a quick, well-written read), but not to earn my undying adoration.
(Readalikes: Reminded me of Just Listen by Sarah Dessen)
Grade:
If this were a movie, it would be rated:
for references to disturbing subjects (sexual abuse, rape, etc.)
To the FTC, with love: Another library fine find
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Hmmm, that's disappointing. I liked the one book by Carol Lynch Williams I have read. Too bad this one wasn't great.
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