A review by elyssam
The Space Between by Sarah Ready

emotional slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

1.0

The Space Between follows Jace and Andi after meeting one evening. They fall in love and Andi decides to follow Jace and his band on tour. Despite the strength of their love, one night forces them to fall apart. Years later, Jace is in one of the most popular bands of their time and Andrea is working for her father’s company. They are worlds apart, but they may just be brought back together.

Let me start by saying, I’ve read a Sarah Ready book before and enjoyed it so I was really surprised by how much I didn’t like this one. By the time we got to their breakup, the book was only 50% in and it felt like it had been dragging on for so long. After that, it gave us an entirely different love story which really takes you out of the original romance, but it didn’t really matter to me because I was already so removed from the book at this point. At the 50% there were two very traumatic events (not to mention, both Andi and Jace has childhood trauma) which felt like a lot all at once. But it didn’t stop there. From then on it was traumatic event after traumatic event sprinkled with some confession that added more trauma. It was a lot. And felt like the only reason this book was capable of moving on was through giving these characters a lot of grief and turmoil to deal with, and not in a well thought out way. 

I guess this is all to say I may have liked this better if the story structure was different, maybe a little less linear. And I would have loved it if there was more cohesiveness in how the big events and confessions were delivered. 
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