Between the Lines – March Book Review

Today I’m sharing my March book review! While the month started off a little slow, I managed to knock out three fiction reads! I’m still working my way through It’s not Supposed to be this Way but not because it hasn’t been amazing. I’ve really just been soaking it up in small doses.

Amazon: As a teenage runaway and child of an addict, Christy-Lynn learned the hard way that no address was permanent, and no promise sacred. For a while, she found a safe haven in her marriage to bestselling crime novelist Stephen Ludlow—until his car skidded into Echo Bay. But Stephen’s wasn’t the only body pulled from the icy waters that night. When details about a mysterious violet-eyed blonde become public, a media circus ensues, and Christy-Lynn runs again.

My thoughts: I really just wanted to see Christy be loved and happy! It really made me think about how many times I allowed myself to continue in a situation I thought was happy at the time to only find out later I allowed it to protect myself from feeling more deeply.

Amazon: Zoe knows that it wasn’t really her fault. Of course it wasn’t. But if she’d just grasped harder, run faster, lunged quicker, she might have saved him. And Edward doesn’t really blame her, though his bitter words at the time still haunt her, and he can no more take them back than she can halt the car that killed their son.

Two years on, every day is a tragedy. Edward knows they should take healing steps together, but he’s tired of being shut out. For Zoe, it just seems easier to let grief lead the way.

A weekend in Paris might be their last hope for reconciliation, but mischance sees them separated before they’ve even left Gare du Nord. Lost and alone, Edward and Zoe must try to find their way back to each other—and find their way back to the people they were before. But is that even possible?

My thoughts: Y’all, I loved Who We Were Before! The book switches back and forth between the two characters while also flipping back to how they met and fell and love while filling in all the blanks in between. I could relate so well to the emotions being had by both characters and really was pulling for them! I couldn’t quit turning the pages.

Amazon: For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. When two young men from town become intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new life–until the unthinkable happens.

Perfect for fans of Barbara Kingsolver and Karen Russell, Where the Crawdads Sing is at once an exquisite ode to the natural world, a heartbreaking coming-of-age story, and a surprising tale of possible murder. Owens reminds us that we are forever shaped by the children we once were, and that we are all subject to the beautiful and violent secrets that nature keeps.

My thoughts: If you didn’t see my insta-story already, I ended this book with an ugly cry! I LOVED this book so much and really think it will be hard to top for me this year. So well written and beautiful with an ending I didn’t see coming.

Tell me what is one MUST READ I should add to my list for 2019?

See previous book reviews for more of my favorites!