Amber Garza’s ‘When I Was You’


Creeeeeeepy. I love creepy. Because I, myself, am . . . creepy? You know what, nevermind, doesn’t matter.

This review was commissioned by Harper Collins.

This is more like it; from the moment you take a step into Kelly Medina’s world, everything you’re reading and looking at just goes a shade darker and more innocuous than it should be. Is what Kelly’s narration is telling us the truth? Or is it all part of a mind unraveling from systematic velvet bat verbal spousal abuse and unspeakable tragedy?

Is Kelly really imagining things? Situations, slights, entire interactions with people? The people themselves?

And who is her new friend, this young woman half her age who shares her name- who is she really?

Dark and twisty (and twisted) from beginning to end, this is a book for people who love, to quote the master, Stephen King, “the dark, unquiet coffin”.

‘When I Was You’ drops August 25th; don’t miss this dark psychological thriller- for lovers of Tarryn Fisher and Jennifer Hillier novels.