A slow start but worth persevering. The main character could do with a boot up her backside at times, letting much time pass without doing anything. But, the book got much better as it progressed, and I was quite interested to see how it would turn out. I will read the next one in the series, it was not a cliffhanger as such, but it did lead into the next book.

Thanks so much to the publisher and to NetGalley for giving me access to this book.This book just never took off for me. I felt that it was a good story but it just kind of didn't move beyond the initial good idea. I think it is a fine book but nor a strong recommend from me.

This is just one of those books you just can't put down with the ending being such a fantasitic cliffhanger I guess I'll just have to read the rest of the books in this series


My thanks to NetGalley, the author and publisher for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Sorry for this very late review

Amy’s fiancé is involved in a boating accident right before their wedding. They had been together for years. Someone keeps hinting that he is still alive. Over time Amy has opened her own cafe. And she has met someone new. She eventually decides to search for James. She finds out secrets about his family. This is her journey of letting him go and then searching for him. It’s her emotional journey through all of it.

I did not finish this book...too much pycho stuff going on
And to many pages about FOOD!
And to many pages about FOOD!
And there was no mystery!

Thank you to NetGalley and Lake Union Publishing for this reader's copy. In exchange, I am providing an honest review.

Aimee Tierney shows up on her wedding day to bury her fiancé, James. Clearly, this was not the day she and James had planned for. After the funeral, Aimee is approached by a stranger claiming that James isn't really dead. And while Aimee initially brushes off this claim she can't help but wonder, and hope, if James is still somehow - miraculously - alive. All signs point to his death except for the few that point towards him still being alive. But if James is alive why isn't he letting her know? If James is alive, where is he and why? If James is alive, what does that mean about the relationship she thought they had and any future together?

I started this title thinking it was going to be a bit...fluffy. So I was pleasantly surprised by the substance it contained. There's some grit to the story, some moments of reality - not everything gets wrapped up and tied together with a pretty bow. I appreciate that in a story. There were still some fanciful, implausible parts to the story but not as many as I feared there might be as I started the book. It was intriguing enough for me to want to continue on, right away, to book 2 in this trilogy.

This book is one that I will be adding to the “Have to Buy” list. You know those books that grab you after you start reading, because they start you questioning “Huh?” and “What?”? Then, after some more chapters, you go to the “Why?” and “How?” questions. Then, you get to the “What if…?” questions.
Yeah, this book does that. It grabs you, and doesn’t let go. The twists and turns thrown at you make it impossible to do anything else but read. You end up reading straight through; staying up way later than you should, because you want to get to the end just so you can get the answers to all your questions.
And that is when you know you’ve read a really good book. But what made this a Great Book is the “after I was done”, when I went and Googled subjects that came up in the book.

Not having read any of her books before, I was somewhat intrepid at this one. I have to confess, I loved it! And I would thoroughly recommend this to anyone, if they want an absorbing, interesting read.
I will be looking for more of her novels in future.

It should have been Aimee’s wedding day, but instead she is burying her fiance James after he dies at sea while on a boating trip. But during the funeral, a psychic approaches her and insists that James isn’t dead.

Despite the seed of doubt that has been planted in her head, Aimee tries to move on with her life, with big changes in her career, and even her love life. But things aren’t adding up – and Aimee can’t stand the ‘what if’. She needs to find out what happened to James…

Everything We Keep has an interesting premise but it felt like the first half of this book dragged, while the second half, with a lot of crucial events and developments, was super rushed. I did enjoy the concept though, although there was a lot about this that didn’t feel very natural or realistic. It felt just that little bit too convenient – kind of the same way When I Lost You did. Such a shame because this is billed as a romantic-mystery but comes off as just silly in execution.

I am sorry for the inconvenience, but I don't have the time to read this book anymore and have lost interest in the concept. I believe that it would benefit your book more if I did not skim your book and write a rushed review. Again, I am sorry for the inconvenience.

I don't even know where to start with this book, which started good and then ended up being totally wacko, like two totally different books fused into one. At the start, on what should be her wedding day, Aimee is instead attending the funeral of her fiance James who went missing on a business trip to Mexico and then was found dead. After the funeral, a woman claiming to be a psychic tells Aimee that her husband isn't actually dead. For more than half of the book, this is pretty much a regular contemporary women's novel about Aimee as she tries to move on with her life and figure out what to do. Then, more than a year after the death, she suddenly starts trying to find out what really happened to James and takes a trip to Mexico. The book then turns into some kind of weird quasi-psychological suspense novel with one preposterous reveal after another. So what started out as a 3.5-4 star kind of book, through pacing issues, shifts in tone, and generally going off the rails, turned into a 2 star book. Disappointing.

I felt like I had already read this. And yes, it turned out to be slightly different, but... Not notably better, than the other "my fiance/husband died right before/after our wedding, but what's really going on" books that I've read.

A simple, convenient and predictable storyline with barely fleshed out characters and cheesy dialogue which somewhat redeemed itself with its ending. I read the second book in this series directly following this first book which slightly increased the enjoyment. Now that I think of it, mabe it would have made for a more solid story if the contents of the two books had been combined. But then again, maybe not. Thankfully, it was a fairly short, fast read.

Thank you to NetGalley and Lake Union Publishing for providing a digital copy in return for an honest, unbiased review.

Every now and then, a book comes along where I start gleefully anticipating my review. Loved this book. A real page turner. Couldn't put it down. Loved the words and the story.

I love the rare moment when I finish a book and feel sad about it because I know there is more to the story. This was one of those times... and I'm in luck since it was the first book in a series. I liked the interesting path the book took and its ability to examine what real love really looks like through the lens of an interesting and international mystery. I will definitely be continuing on the series.

Note: You can read this on Kindle Unlimited!!!

I was invited to read this book and the title didn't really speak to me so it's slipped a long way down my TBR pile. How I wish I had read it sooner, the title belies a great story.

I found it a little bit of a slow starter. Don't get me wrong I was enjoying reading it, I just wasn't sure where it was going. The book begins with Aimee at the funeral of her fiance, on the day they would have been married. Even the flowers are the ones meant for the wedding as her MIL to be doesn't want them to go to waste! At this point I began to wonder if her future MIL had murdered her son just to stop him marrying someone she clearly didn't feel any empathy for.

As Aimee is leaving the funeral a physic approaches her and tells her that her fiance is still alive! The book then flip flops through Aimee trying to move on, and flashbacks to how they met with an insight into their early lives. We then get a little bit of hint of a romance and Aimee gets to open her own coffee shop in the meantime.

Part two of the book, and it's now two years since her fiance died, and she has more than a hunch that he is still alive. This is the part of the book that I can imagine some people will find hard to believe. But they say truth is stranger than fiction and I certainly was reading it with incredulity - not at the story but at how it was unfolding, because I never saw it coming. This was the part where I began to race through the book as I really needed to know what the hell was going on.

The writing is easy to read and my only criticism is that Aimee is a little fey in her behaviour, which at times I found annoying. The book does tie off nicely at the end but then there is another twist. Luckily for me the sequel is out and I'm off to read it now. It's called Everything We Left Behind.

I'm giving this book 4 out of 5 stars. My thanks to Netgalley for an ARC for review.

Intriguing, suspenseful and full of surprises right up until the last page! This book will keep the reader guessing with every page turned!

Everything We Keep is an extremely long-winded "getting over someone" story, complete with the logistics of opening a cafe and a boring romance. Well, two boring romances. My biggest issue with the entire story was Aimee. A lot of her decisions didn’t make sense to me. Her thoughts and actions were confusing. One minute she’s convinced her fiancé is still alive, that the body she buried on their wedding day wasn’t him, and the next she’s opening a café and vowing to move on. She was adamant, she couldn’t start anything with Ian until she had concrete answers about James. Her solution, keep Ian at an arms length, for an entire year, and then sleep with him on the trip to Mexico. Of all the times to give in, she picks that one? When she knew what she was after was literally a few blocks away? I don’t get it. I was pissed off at the way she handled things and pretty unimpressed with the way things played out.

A very enjoyable book and although i found it a little slow to begin with, it soon had me hooked. If you enjoy a good book with family secrets, love lost and enough twists, then i do recommend this book.

My thanks to Netgalley and the Publishers for my copy. This is my honest review.

It was okay. I already had the sequel when I started to read 'Everything We Keep,' but I haven't rushed to read it now that I'm done with the first.
There were times when I found it hard work; there were times when I found it great.
I was especially intrigued by the mental condition, Dissociative Fugue, in which Jaime had lost all knowledge of his previous identity, although I found it a little coincidental that his fiancee, Aimee, should find him so easily once she set out to do so - but hey, the most unlikely coincidences do happen!
'Everything We Keep' is worth a read and I will get on with the sequel in time, but I did feel that I'd had enough of Jaime/James and Aimee for a while :)