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A review by witching_hour_reads
The Space Between by Sarah Ready
4.0
Thank you to NetGalley and W.W. Crown for providing the ARC.
I love Sarah Ready. Josh and Gemma (both books) are on my top 10 favorite reads because of how viscerally personal and authentic Ready makes them feel with her writing. I love that she is writing more books, this time with a very dramatic feel.
I have a love/hate relationship with second chance romances. Often times, it's because of a deep miscommunication between the characters, which can usually be solved with a phone call. Or because of infidelity, which is a no go for me. But this story is both of those things and neither of those things without getting too much into spoiler territory. This story, taking place over the span of fourteen years, shows young love, what happens when it is rekindled at the wrong time, and when things are finally right. Jace says it best: "Do you ever feel that you've ended up exactly where you were meant to be?" In this case - yes. I think this story led both the characters and the reader to exactly where they were meant to be at the end of it.
It's full of love, promise, heartbreak, sadness, anger, and forgiveness. Although at times parts of it felt rushed, one thing that Ready doesn't skimp on is the emotional development of her characters. You want to celebrate with these characters, love with them, cry with them, grieve with them, shake them until they understand their mistakes, and wrap them up in a warm cocoon of acceptance at the end of it all. It's hard to do that in the span of a few hundred pages, but I think Ready takes on that challenge and masters it.
Josh and Gemma will always hold the number one place in my heart for how real their story is and how much it affected me. However, I think Jace and Andi will have a hold on me for a long while.
I love Sarah Ready. Josh and Gemma (both books) are on my top 10 favorite reads because of how viscerally personal and authentic Ready makes them feel with her writing. I love that she is writing more books, this time with a very dramatic feel.
I have a love/hate relationship with second chance romances. Often times, it's because of a deep miscommunication between the characters, which can usually be solved with a phone call. Or because of infidelity, which is a no go for me. But this story is both of those things and neither of those things without getting too much into spoiler territory. This story, taking place over the span of fourteen years, shows young love, what happens when it is rekindled at the wrong time, and when things are finally right. Jace says it best: "Do you ever feel that you've ended up exactly where you were meant to be?" In this case - yes. I think this story led both the characters and the reader to exactly where they were meant to be at the end of it.
It's full of love, promise, heartbreak, sadness, anger, and forgiveness. Although at times parts of it felt rushed, one thing that Ready doesn't skimp on is the emotional development of her characters. You want to celebrate with these characters, love with them, cry with them, grieve with them, shake them until they understand their mistakes, and wrap them up in a warm cocoon of acceptance at the end of it all. It's hard to do that in the span of a few hundred pages, but I think Ready takes on that challenge and masters it.
Josh and Gemma will always hold the number one place in my heart for how real their story is and how much it affected me. However, I think Jace and Andi will have a hold on me for a long while.