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When You Were Everything

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My heart ACHES for Cleo. It’s hard in highschool! The amount of rumours. The bullies. Everything slips and you feel like the whole world is against you. When you were everything“ perfectly captures what going through a friendship breakup feels like and i feel like there needs to be more books about this topic since i don‘t think it is talked about nearly enough. Cleo is one of the most relatable characters i‘ve ever read about and i didn‘t expect to relate to her as much as i did. I also would have liked Cleo’s relationship with her parents, particularly her mom, to be explored a bit more because we got a couple of glimpses of that, but nothing more detailed and I was really intrigued by what we did get! Where do I even start? When You Were Everything really had everything I was expecting from this book, but didn’t even know I was expecting. Friendships are a big part of everyone’s life, but books don’t often show that when friendships end that they can hurt just as much as when you’re in love and a relationship ends. When you end up being really close to someone when you’re younger I don’t think anyone really expects or thinks they won’t be this way years later. When You Were Everything was really unique for me in that sense. A hugely evocative and deeply relatable elegy to friendship, heartbreak, and love, this book is gorgeous in every way.”

Why does no one take me seriously?…Is it because I have perfectly conditioned hair and I’m the president of the fashion club? Is it because people assume girls who like makeup and cute clothes are doing it for the male gaze, so it’s strange that I don’t always want dudes around?” (155). There’s just one catch: Cleo is assigned to be Layla’s tutor. The scenes between Cleo and Layla in the “now” chapters are so realistic and sometimes painful (or painfully, perfectly awkward). These two girls had love for one another, or maybe even continue to have some love one another, but time and time again readers watch any chance of their friendship being mended slowly falling apart. What a sweet sweet book about a girl, Cleo, who was abandoned by the person she loved most in the world: her best friend. Following a month of pain and sorrow, she looks for the chance to gain closure and move on from the bestie who will never be hers again. She is able to meet new friends and make new memories along the way. I absolutely loved one of our side characters, Dom, and the book’s ending. Perfect for high school and early college readers, Woodfolk tells the story of imploded friendships well.I think this books does a great job exploring all different types of loss and the building of different relationships. I really appreciate how this book breaks a linear timeline, as it is unclear when exactly “then” and “now” is actually referring. In this fresh take on a standard timeline, readers slowly get to know Cleo and Layla’s friendship, and their new friendships as they create new memories. Cleo’s parents announce that they are getting a divorce. As her life at home is falling apart, so is her life at school.

It's not like it was a relationship," he says, and I frown, annoyed at his reaction. Perhaps he doesn't know how it feels....to break in this particular way. Or perhaps it's different for boys? But girls cling to their friends for dear life as they wade through rough waters of learning who they are while everything around and inside them is changing minute by minute. And aren't we all a little in love with our best friends?" At its heart, I just loved a book centered entirely on friendships; how they are so important and formative to teenage girls, how they can be so healing and wonderful but also hurt as well. Meu Deus esse livro me pegou no meu ponto fraco. Eu to me acabando de chorar. Sério tenho que até pensar um pouco pra escrever essa resenha depois.This book. I never knew a book could make you feel so vulnerable and so seen; a book that lays bare the messiness and hurt and pain in friendship breakups while also being incredibly empathetic and understanding. Layla and Sloane, with the help of their new friends, spread a rumor that Cleo’s dad, a teacher at her school, is having an affair. This rumor then turns into a rumor that her dad had an affair with a student. Cleo’s dad moves out, admitting he did cheat on Cleo’s mom with Cleo’s favorite teacher, and at this point, it looks like Cleo is completely breaking. A hugely evocative and deeply relatable elegy to friendship, heartbreak, and love, this book is gorgeous in every way.”—Jennifer E. Smith, author of Windfalland Field Notes on Love I feel that When You Were Everything is a book that hits hard because readers feel so seen by Cleo and the events that unfold her sophomore year of high school. Almost everyone has lost a friend they were extremely close with, in some way or another. The betrayal of seeing your best friend hanging out and having fun with someone besides yourself is...if not universal, then really damn close to it. Review: I thought I had prepared myself emotionally for Ashley Woodfolk’s latest book, When You Were Everything. The book follows Cleo as she copes with the aftermath of a devastating friend break-up with her BFF Layla. She wants to move on, but sometimes, friend break-ups are the hardest ones to move on from. Having experienced my own friend break-up a few years ago, I knew this book would, as we used to say in the 2010s, hit me right in the feels. And it did. Oof.

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