Title: All the Promises We Break

Author: Brenda Benny

Page count:  271

Published: October 13, 2018

Publisher: Liddle Book Press

Genre: YA

Received: From Netgalley in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 3/5

Summary:

How do you move forward from a night that changes everything if you can’t even remember it? 

With high school finally over, and her long-awaited South American adventure just around the corner, Savannah expects to wind up in the arms of her first real love Chase at the end of tonight’s party.

Instead, she wakes up on the bathroom floor. 
She knows she wasn’t alone.
Except she can’t remember any of it.

Chase is nowhere to be found. And the only one picking up the pieces is her outrageous and unpredictable best friend, Pete. Amidst the devastating emotional wreckage of sexual assault, Savannah struggles to fit together the jigsaw puzzle of before and after, while shielding the truth from everyone around her.

Will the worst night of her life keep Savannah from her dreams of first love and finding the road less travelled? 

All the Promises We Break is the first of a two book series that follows Savannah through a tragic 1990’s night that tears her apart from her first young love, only to set in motion a chain of events that will lead them back to one another, years later in the sequel, to reveal if the healing process can truly offer a second chance at first love.

My Thoughts:

 Before I get into my review, I just wanted to add there is a trigger warning that deals with Sexual Assault.

I read this a while ago, but I have been putting on my review because I wasn’t sure how to word my review. This book does deal with a tough subject that hasn’t been talked a lot in books, or the ones that I have read anyway. I did enjoy this book and how it was written, I’m just feeling a little indifferent on it.

Savannah is about to go to Ecuador to volunteer before going to collage and in the flashbacks that we get to see why she was a little resident on going. One night that Savannah is at a party and she gets pretty hammered because of some things that happen. I don’t want to spoil why, but when she wakes the next day on the bathroom floor and she only remembers a little here a there, but one thing that she is convinced on is that she was raped an doesn’t know who the attacker was. We then follow her on the journey to find out who had done it. I wasn’t a fan of the ending, it felt like it was reading the story and then the next it was over, I was hoping that there would have been more instead of ending suddenly.