The Words between Us by Erin Bartels goes from now to then and back again. She is a master at crafting word scenes and beauty in prose. Although I felt it to be a bit slow at the beginning, it became a mystery part of the way through which surprised me and kept me reading.
The description of Robin seeing Niagara for the first time, midway through the book made me wake up to the beauty of Erin’s writing. “The sun was hanging low in the sky when we reached Niagara, and I had to shade my eyes. I felt the falls before I saw them, a low and thundering in my ears and a shivering beneath my feet, like the entire world was trembling…it felt like a release.”
The feelings a teenager goes through when they feel abandoned were sensitively presented and the subjects of justice and reconciliation were addressed also.
Book-talk, poetry and suspense are found in this novel. I look forward to reading more from Erin Bartels.
I received this book free of charge from Revell Reads in exchange for my honest review.
Donna Collins Tinsley
No comments:
Post a Comment