I Will Find You Again

De: Sarah Lyu

Narrado por: Natalie Naudus

All the Bright Places meets Ace of Spades in this “compelling, twisty” (Booklist) teen thriller about a girl who can’t stop pushing herself to be the best—even after losing her best friend and the love of her life.

Welcome to Meadowlark, Long Island—expensive homes and good schools, ambition and loneliness. Meet Chase Ohara and Lia Vestiano: the driven overachiever and the impulsive wanderer, the future CEO and the free spirit. Best friends for years—weekend trips to Montauk, sleepovers on a yacht—and then, first love. True love.

But when Lia disappears, Chase’s life turns into a series of grim snapshots. Anger. Grief. Running. Pink pills in an Altoids tin. A cheating ring at school. Heartbreak and lies. A catastrophic secret.

And the shocking truth that will change everything about the way Chase sees Lia—and herself.

©2023 Sarah Lyu. All rights reserved. (P)2023 Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved.

Stellar

4.5 STARS

Chase’s ex girlfriend is missing. Even Lia’s new girlfriend Hunter doesn’t know where she is. As familial and school pressures mount, Chase tries to figure out what went so very wrong.

I WILL FIND YOU AGAIN is, in part, about the privilege we assume in others and how that misperception affects our relationships with ourselves and others. Chase sees her best friend as privileged, with the perfect family. Lia’s famous tv chef mom buys her everything from yachts to cars to apartments. When Chase’s parents divorced, her dad moved off Long Island to Manhattan. She moved with her mom and sister to a smaller home, no longer living across from her best friend and future girlfriend Lia. Though hardly poor, Chase compares herself to Lia. Lia feels like an outcast. Adopted from South Korea at age one to white parents, she feels like an outcast, undeserving of the gifts bestowed upon her, things she never asked for.

Sarah Lyu’s stellar writing, character building and plot construction makes her one of my favorite new YA writers. She touches on a variety of difficult issues many teens experience without preaching or providing easy answers.

One of the most interesting minor characters was Chase’s grandfather, who survived a Japanese internment camp as a boy. I’ve never seen this addressed in YA, which it’s only a few pages, the experience illustrates how trauma can affect future generations. This character is only on a few pages though the impact of his experience on Chase’s ambitious father is vital to understanding the whys of how she developed her own high standards.

I WILL FIND YOU AGAIN is one of those audiobooks that I started relistening immediately after finishing.

Heavy

This is a very heavy book. I cried throughout almost the entire thing. This author makes you feel the anguish of the characters. I hope she has an incredibly upbeat book I can listen to next to cheer myself up from the emotional roller coaster this book was. Narration was great!