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Audiobook Review: Everything We Never Said by Sloan Harlow

Everything We Never Said
Author: Sloan Harlow

Narrators:
Steven Molony

Ferdelle Capistrano
Brittany Pressley
Published: May 28, 2024
Audiobook: 9 hours 14 minutes

Reviewed By: Jessica
Dates Listened: January 17-24 2025
Jessica’s Rating: 5 stars

Book Description:

What you don’t know can hurt you….

It’s been months since the accident that killed Ella’s best friend, Hayley, and Ella can’t stop blaming herself. Now, Ella is back at school, and everywhere she looks are reminders of her best friend—including Sawyer, Hayley’s boyfriend. Little by little, they grow closer, until Ella realizes something horrifying…

She’s in love with her dead best friend’s boyfriend.

Racked with guilt, Ella turns to Hayley’s journal, hoping she’ll find something in the pages that will make her feel better about what’s happening. Instead, she discovers that Sawyer has secrets of his own, and that his relationship with Hayley wasn’t as picture-perfect as it seemed.

Ella knows she should stay away but finds herself inextricably drawn to him—and scared of everything she never knew about him. Perhaps it’s his grief. Or maybe his desires, cut short by tragedy. Or could it be something twisted only Hayley knew about?

Jessica’s Review:

This one is my first five star read of 2025!  It is a mix of my two top genres: YA and Suspense/Thriller.  It’s more of a mix of those genres with some romance added in.  It does get a slight bit steamy, just the YA version of 16/17-year-olds doing what 16/17-year-olds do. 

We have two narrators: Ella and Sawyer. Ella and Hayley were best friends and Ella blames herself for Hayley’s death while Sawyer was Hayley’s boyfriend. We also get to know Hayley through diary entries.  Over time Ella and Sawyer become close and then fall for each other.  But over time Ella begins to read Hayley’s diary and begins to realize things may not have been what they seemed.

Grief and domestic abuse are themes in this novel and could be triggering to readers. The book takes place in Georgia and Harlow is also from the state so I enjoyed the many references being from Georgia myself! Authors from Georgia that mention locations in Georgia get a plus in my reading! It helps me identify with the characters more. 

Everything is a fast-moving novel and yes, I figured out the ‘whodunnit’ 66% of the way in, but not the why this person did what they did.  I still had a surprise when I got to that.  But then…. To quote Samuel L Jackson,hold on to your butts” the reader is in for another big twist later on! 

I really enjoyed Everything We Never Said.  There are three narrators to it.  The guy narrator had to ‘grow’ on me.  I didn’t really like him, but the two female narrators did great.  Brittany Pressley narrated Hayley’s diary entries and did a fabulous job!

I will be looking into Harlow’s future novels! 

Purchase Links:
Amazon US
Amazon UK