We Came Here to Forget

A Novel

By: Andrea Dunlop

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

From the author of She Regrets Nothing, which BuzzFeed called a “sharp, glittering story of wealth, family, and fate,” a vivid novel about a young Olympic skier who loses everything and reinvents herself in Buenos Aires, where she meets a man keeping dark secrets of his own.

Katie Cleary has always known exactly what she wants: to be the best skier in the world. As a teenager, she leaves her home to live and train full time with her two best friends, brothers Luke and Blair. Their wealthy father hires the best coaches money can buy and after years of training, the three friends are the USA’s best shot at bringing home Olympic gold.

But as the upward trajectory of Katie’s elite skiing career nears its zenith, a terrifying truth about her sister becomes impossible to ignore—one that will lay ruin not only to Katie’s career but to her family and her relationship with Luke and Blair.

With her life shattered and nothing left to lose, Katie flees the snowy mountainsides of home for Buenos Aires. There, she reinvents herself and meets a colorful group of ex-pats and the alluring, charismatic Gianluca Fortunado, a tango teacher with secrets of his own. This beautiful city, with its dark history and wild promise, seems like the perfect refuge, but can she really outrun her demons?

“Searing, gripping…a complicated story of sisterhood unlike any told before” (Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of Daisy Jones & The Six), We Came Here to Forget explores what it means to dream, to desire, to achieve—and what’s left behind after it all disappears.

I forced myself to finish it

The MC truly frustrated me.
Honestly, if it weren't for Julia Whelan I probably would've stopped the book several chapters in.
In the first few chapters it was really interesting and then it was "all downhill" from there. :/
The ending was almost lazy, especially because the plot was SO drawn out just for it to end abruptly.

Incredible!

Complex and real relationships in an entertaining and engaging story. We all have a reason to forget

Narrator

Story was good. Interesting. Hadn’t thought about the syndrome or living as an expat in Argentina. Or being an Olympic skier.

Underwhelmed

I mistakenly thought this was about Andrea’s life with her sister, instead this is like a raunchy romance novel with a few snippets here and there about a sister alluding to Munchausen by Proxy possibly. Besides her new book, this was the first fiction book I read of hers, maybe all her fiction books are like this.

We Came Here to Forget

This was a great story, that rings of the truth of a very severe problem. Great information, don’t miss this novel! Great narration, and wonderful author!! Kudos!!

Hypnotizing Read

I greatly enjoyed this story. the voice talent, Julia Whelan, was fabulous with her varied accents and tones of voice. Andrea Dunlop has created a weave of reality with her fiction that drew me in and kept me listening to the end. The reality of factitious disorder by proxy is terrifyingly real and she portrays it honestly in this fictive story.

as someone who is asexual, I will say that the sexual scenes were not difficult to listen to. though I did skip the longest one because of my discomfort. her writing is enjoyable and so I kept going.

A good book but ...

...it took too long to get to the actual story. I enjoyed greatly the this book moved back and forth in time. The characters were all believable and well-fleshed out. The problem I had with it was how long it took to finally find out what happened. Without revealing too much, I think the story would have been better with knowing the secret in the beginning because it would have interesting to see how the characters developed earlier. I would recommend it but know in advance it is going to take about 75-80% of the book for something to be revealed.

The twist is pretty obvious

Maybe because I kept reading reviews about the twist being so surprising colored my view but the author leaves some pretty big bread crumbs and I found myself just wanting to get to the end to see what the big twist was and was ultimately disappointed

Addicting to read

This was a book I couldn’t put down, I had to know what happened! It’s the first book in awhile I have felt that way about so I am giving it five stars across the board!

Interesting story...but

Interesting story; but the ending was quick. It left me with several questions. The reader was fantastic as usual!