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    We Came Here to Forget: A Novel
    We Came Here to Forget: A Novel
    We Came Here to Forget: A Novel
    Audiobook10 hours

    We Came Here to Forget: A Novel

    Written by Andrea Dunlop

    Narrated by Julia Whelan

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    About this audiobook

    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateJul 2, 2019
    ISBN9781508295761
    Author

    Andrea Dunlop

    Andrea Dunlop is the author of We Came Here to Forget, She Regrets Nothing, Losing the Light, and Broken Bay. She lives with her husband in Seattle, Washington, where she works as a social media consultant.

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    Readers find this title to be a well-written and engaging story with great characters and wonderful narration. The alternating chapters between the past and present are done beautifully, although some readers found the beginning to be a bit overwhelming with too much detail. There were also some technical issues with the audio recording. Overall, this book is a good read that is both heartbreaking and heartwarming, with a satisfying ending.

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    • 3/5
      I listened to this as an audio book. It translates to audio better than most books and the narration was spectacular. Rare in audio books. The writing itself is VERY good but I was immensely disappointed with the final chapter. The ending was rushed and incomplete. It was like the writer said oh crap..i gotta wrap this up or it's going to be too long. This book isnt really abiut MBP except in a rather fleeting way. You could have removed every mention of her sister, the MBP and still had a very good well written story. The fact MBP was even brought up seems out of place in a sense. This was mmoe a story about love and loss and finding yourself after running away.
    • 4/5
      This one snuck up on me!! I was kind of so-so about by the time I was 1/2 way through. The last half was AMAZING!! The full development of ALL the characters and perfection of the finality. A very good book!
    • 1/5
      I couldn’t get into this story at all. Time is valuable and I am not wasting it on a lame book. Moving on to something worth it.
    • 5/5
      Excellent book, great characters, wonderful narration. Heartbreaking yet heartwarming. Good read.
    • 5/5
      Enjoyed the story and the characters. Look forward to the next one.
    • 1/5
      Lots of detail in the beginning(kind of information overload).. wasn’t sure where it was going... also the recording kept skipping so I had no idea what was going on.. definitely would recommend getting the glitches fixed as it makes the story line extremely hard to follow.
    • 5/5
      Best book I’ve read in awhile! The chapters alternate between the past and the present, which is done beautifully. I found myself disappointed to leave whichever “time” we were in when a new chapter would end!

      6 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      I wasn’t sure what I was getting into, but I could hardly put it down. Engrossing and emotional.

      3 people found this helpful