Unexpected Connections: The Last Thing He Told Me book review

People talk all day long, but what happens when the last thing they ever said becomes the most important thing they've ever said?

Hey, it's Kyla Denanyoh. Today, we're discussing the book The Last Thing He Told Me.

This book was written by Laura Dave.

The genre of the book is fiction.

The theme of the book is suspense thriller.

The book follows a young couple, Michael and Hannah, and Michael has a daughter named Bailey. As you read the book and follow along with their lives, you're like, ‘Okay, okay, okay, I get it.’

And then you find out that Hannah is not too much older than Bailey, her stepdaughter, and I'm like, ‘Okay, is there any connection there?’ It turns out there isn't, but stepparents and stepchildren usually have a contentious relationship, or at least there's some time for them to work out the relationship, right? So many unexpected connections!

But then, Austin, Texas.

Austin is so important because you get little hints, little trickles here and there, a business card, you know what I mean, a little something.

And then Austin, Texas ends up unraveling so much stuff for the family.

So that was the major plot twist when we found out about Austin, Texas. And you're like, okay, capital of Texas, what's the big deal? But then slowly the book starts to unravel all these different clues, which turns out that Hannah is a badass. 

Seriously, she should have been working with the police department. She should have been an official investigator. Hannah will take the most minute detail, take this, a little bit of this, a little bit of this, put it all together, boom, I got a story, okay? So part of Hannah's incredibleness as a stepmom is how she defends Bailey.

We get a couple of glimpses of Hannah's relationship with her grandfather, and I think that's why Hannah is able to stand up for Bailey in such a big way because of everything she learned from her grandfather.

But,  Hannah was a supporting character but ended up being the primary character (even though she had supporting character energy), which was something I was not expecting, but it was really good in the book, okay, and I maintain the fact that I think most suspense books are written chronologically and then the editor is like can you take this chapter and just move it to a whole other section of the book and then people will be left wanting because I'm just like the book is good I'm missing something this character's a little shallow.

Boom! And it's like y'all removed that entire chapter that we could have had like I don't think the book would have been any less good I don't think the book would have been any worse if it was in order, but it's just like anywho Austin Texas ends up being a really important part of the book and Hannah ends up showing herself so that was that's why Austin Texas is such a big deal and why it was REALLY relevant to the book, The Last Thing He Told Me. 

I always tell you whether or not I would reread a book. I would not reread this book. It was very entertaining, but no, I wouldn't reread it.

I don't want to know what Bailey is doing later on, what happens to Hannah, or what happens to Michael. So, no, this wouldn't be a book that I would reread because once I finish it, I won't spend a lot of time thinking about the characters and what they're doing.

There are so many books and so little time, but I am getting through as many of them as I can.

Let me know if you've read anything by the author and how you felt about this book. 

I will see you next time for another book review!

Kyla