Blog Tour: Six Goodbyes We Never Said by Candace Ganger

Publisher: Wednesday Books
Publication date: September 24th 2019
Pages: 320

Naima Rodriguez doesn’t want your patronizing sympathy as she grieves her father, her hero—a fallen Marine. She’ll hate you forever if you ask her to open up and remember him “as he was,” though that’s all her loving family wants her to do in order to manage her complex OCD and GAD. She’d rather everyone back the-eff off while she separates her Lucky Charms marshmallows into six, always six, Ziploc bags, while she avoids friends and people and living the life her father so desperately wanted for her.

Dew respectfully requests a little more time to process the sudden loss of his parents. It's causing an avalanche of secret anxieties, so he counts on his trusty voice recorder to convey the things he can’t otherwise say aloud. He could really use a friend to navigate a life swimming with pain and loss and all the lovely moments in between. And then he meets Naima and everything’s changed—just not in the way he, or she, expects. Candace Ganger's Six Goodbyes We Never Said is no love story. If you ask Naima, it’s not even a like story. But it is a story about love and fear and how sometimes you need a little help to be brave enough to say goodbye..

I really liked the style this book was written in. Altough the plot wasn't the most strongest one, it is a nice read about two teens who went and go through hard times after the loss of their parents, and have difficult adoptive family situations. It did took a little too long though for Naima and Dew to connect in the book, and I wonder why the author didn't let this happen earlier, they do meet somewhere in the beginning of the book, but as Naima is pushing everyone around her away, they go their own way again to later meet again, and this is where the story actually feels to really take of, where it earlier strands a little in repeating struggles within their home lives and in Drew's work at a coffee bar and the people around them
This it is definately not a book if you are in for something fun and light, but a more serious young adult novel, so if you are looking for something like that, this would be the right pick.