You Did Nothing Wrong was kind of a wild ride, and while I really enjoyed reading it and getting to be back with C.G.Drews’ beautiful prose and exceptional characters, there were still a few aspects that left me just wanting more.

What impacted me most while reading this was the characters and just how complex and real they are. Whether the characters make you feel anger, empathy, love or hate, C.G.Crews writes them in such a way that makes these feelings so personal, and like these characters are more than just words on paper.

Elodie is someone that went through so much in life, is going through so much in life without really knowing how to navigate that and I felt so much empathy and understanding for her. She holds on to certain beliefs, and it’s almost impossible to change her way of thinking with the way she had to survive before her son Jude. There’s a constant battle in her head that she cannot seem to win and that inevitably influences how she interacts with her son and even her husband.

As this is a C.G.Crews’ book, toxic love and beautiful prose couldn’t be missing and these go hand in hand together beautifully, I will always admire this author’s writing and this book was no exception.

While I adored how the characters were written, I can’t say the same about the plot. I was a little disappointed with a few of the plot twists that were revealed later in the book as some felt predictable or just not as shocking as I wanted them to be, there were a few things that happened with no bigger meaning that I was hoping had some sort of connection to the characters and there were a lot of plot points that felt like instead of happening for the plot they were there to excuse it, like the author was taking the easy way out instead of going along with the more complex concept.

After finishing the book I still felt like I was left with so many questions, and while I don’t mind some plot points being left open for the reader to interpret as they see best and with everyone having a different interpretation of what wasn’t answered, I just don’t think that really worked here. The whole book is spent leading somewhere, trying to make sense of what’s happening, what’s real and what’s made up, that when you don’t get concrete answers, it feels unfinished.

While this is C.G.Crews adult debut and their previous books have been YA, I felt that the horror aspect was done so much better in the YA books rather than in the adult one. It wasn’t as strong, as explicit, as impactful, and while this book is marked as horror, to me it felt a lot more like a thriller.