We Used To Be Friends by Amy Spalding

About The Book

Title: We Used To Be Friends

Author: Amy Spalding

Genre: Contemporary

Pages: 362

Rating: ★★★

Synopsis:

Two best friends grow up—and grow apart—in this innovative contemporary YA novel



Told in dual timelines—half of the chapters moving forward in time and half moving backward—We Used to Be Friends explores the most traumatic breakup of all: that of childhood besties. At the start of their senior year in high school, James (a girl with a boy’s name) and Kat are inseparable, but by graduation, they’re no longer friends. James prepares to head off to college as she reflects on the dissolution of her friendship with Kat while, in alternating chapters, Kat thinks about being newly in love with her first girlfriend and having a future that feels wide open. Over the course of senior year, Kat wants nothing more than James to continue to be her steady rock, as James worries that everything she believes about love and her future is a lie when her high-school sweetheart parents announce they’re getting a divorce. Funny, honest, and full of heart, We Used to Be Friends tells of the pains of growing up and growing apart.

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My Review

This book is basically all about a one-sided friendship. I felt everything that James felt at one point or another in my life. Most of my friendships have always been one-sided, which is why I've come to realize I'm better off without them! This is a book I wish I would have been able to read years ago. This book is just so relatable to all my friendships in the past.



James and Kat were friends for the longest time. Unfortunately, they grow apart. Kat doesn't understand why James isn't talking to her like she used to.



I think this book explains so much of how one-sided friendships can be so toxic. It was done extremely well and made me feel validated for ending certain friendships in the past.



Unfortunately, I felt like this book was kind of slow and a bit boring at times. I wish that this book was more focused on Kat trying to better herself instead of waiting until the last two chapters for her to realize that she's kind of a crappy person.