Book Review: Yours Always

By Sara Steven

Talia Danvers is an engineer for a high-end dating app who hasn’t managed to code her own love life. Then she reconnects with Townsend the one who got away.

Or, more accurately, the one who left her for someone else. But Townsend swears he’s a changed man, and Talia wants to believe him. Even if he is the prime suspect in the disappearance of Amanda Reade, the same woman who broke them up in the first place.

In cases like these, it’s always the boyfriend. That’s what Amanda’s sister Kaitlyn thinks. So does Talia’s colleague Meera Ratnam—and she’ll risk everything to convince Talia that she’s making a deadly mistake.

Then Talia starts receiving menacing texts from Amanda. Suddenly, no one knows what to believe. Is Townsend guilty? Is Amanda alive? Or is someone playing games? (Synopsis courtesy of Goodreads.)

Yours Always was a wild ride. One minute, I felt certain as to what is going on and who to be wary of, but in the next minute, everything I thought I knew would get upended, and it felt like I was right back to where I’d started! 

The viewpoints given to the reader are provided by Talia, Townsend, Kaitlyn and Meera–and just like what one can come to expect from human nature, truth is severely objective. There are even moments of clarity from Amanda, Kaitlyn’s missing sister, and there is a lot of back and forth as to whether she is alive and well and hiding out, a characteristic she’s prone to do, or whether she’s missing and has been harmed. No one really knows for certain, with the major build-up leading up to the ultimate truth.

The viewpoints flowed effortlessly. I never felt lost or like I didn’t know what was happening, other than when I thought I knew for certain what was really going on behind the scenes for Amanda. In the end, the scenarios reminded me of the film He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not. For the first half of the movie, the viewer gets to see the perspective from one character’s point of view, and then the second half, it’s from the other main character’s perspective, and only then is true clarity achieved. It felt a lot like that for me with Yours Always, which only added nicely to the build-up for everyone involved. 

My favorite character was Meera. It’s like she was the voice of reason within a sea of chaos, even when no one wants to listen or believe. I thought it was interesting how her involvement with everyone is slowly revealed over chapters, with a lot of unexpected results. This was a true psychological thriller, a five-star experience for me!

Thanks to MB Communications for the book in exchange for an honest review.

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