Never Never, I’d like to clarify, isn’t a truly a new release. It’s actually being re-released but with a gorgeous new cover (that I’ll most likely end up buying, because, let’s be real, it is a beautiful book). So, I actually read this book with one of the older cover editions. Anyway, let’s get to the review. 

Alright, so as always, I wanna start with the good. The good, you ask? Well the first part was amazing. I can’t say the same for part two and part three. 

Never Never is broken up into three parts. The first one was phenomenal. I was engrossed. I felt connected to the characters. The world building was amazing. I loved the writing, the tension, the dire circumstances that Silas and Charlie were in. It was thrilling in part one. After that, though, was where things started to fall off for me. 

In part two and part three, everything started to slow down. The plot felt jumbled and not well thought out. While I still loved the characters (Charlie especially for her fire), the story was hard to follow. Most of this is due to the fact that it started so strong and just couldn’t hold its momentum through part two and part three. The thing that I hated the most was the ending. 

So many things felt unfinished with the ending. There were things that I felt were unanswered. Questions I still had floating through my brain. It also ends with an open-ending (ish), which usually I appreciate, but for this novel totally threw me off. It felt unnecessary and completely out of tone for the book itself. 

Spoilers ahead.

I really couldn’t get through this review without spoilers. There are so many things that I want to talk about and please, comment if you have any insight because my brain is dying over here. 

First of all, WHY THE HECK WAS THERE BLOOD ON SILAS’ SHEETS???? This is the question that has haunted me ever since I finished the book. Really, though, it just makes me mad because without giving an explanation for this crazy happenstance, it feels like Colleen Hoover and Tarryn Fisher just threw it in there for shock value. Not cool. Not cool at all. 

Secondly, I know everything can’t wrap up nice and tidily, but why the heck didn’t we get a nice apology scene with Cora and Charlie? It feels like that was definitely needed in this book especially since Charlie was a female dog to this poor girl for basically her whole life. Am I wrong to want justice?? 

Another thing, it didn’t make sense to me at all that both Charlie and Silas completely changed when they lost their memories. I get that you’re looking from an outside perspective now. I get that your memories make up a huge chunk of who you are as a person. But the Charlie and Silas who didn’t have memories felt 100% different from the Charlie and Silas they learned about who had their memories. It felt like a stretch for me is all I’m saying.

Okay last thing I want to rant about in the spoilers: the ending. Was that really necessary? It felt like it came out of left field in my opinion, but I suppose other people could like it. Honestly, it just confused me even more that Charlie and Silas’ daughter ends up having the same problem that they did. Yes, throw the amnesia onto fate and call it fate’s fault due to the epic love that Charlie and Silas share. Make it happen again with their daughter? Too coincidental and just way… out there. You’re better off reading a different Colleen Hoover book in my opinion. You can check out my favorites from her with my tier ranking post. Unless you’re like me and on a mission to finish all her novels. Then by all means, read away. 

Overall, a solid 3.5 star book (rounded to 4 stars on Goodreads) that really only got that far because of the amazing beginning. It felt like towards the end the authors were rushed to finish Never Never and didn’t put the full thought and planning into it that they needed to finish it. But hey, it was a nice escape from reality, too. 

 Source: Audiobook from Audible