Between Two Shores by
Jocelyn Green
The Bible verse Jocelyn
puts with this book is
Below are my notes on the book and highlights from my audio review:
I LOVE the part 1 of this
book! There's not too much horrific detail as in some previous books! I
LOVE the majority of the characters and how Jocelyn kept giving little bread crumbs of the secrets! And I LOVED how she married the
past with the present in part 1 and she did it in the way I'm ready
for it and didn't leave me wanting to skip chapters and come back to
those parts! It has a fantastic flow between the two. And I LOVED
the historical detail and the things I learned! However I became torn
on through part 2. It's here that it blew my mind at times and I was
totally left wondering what was possible going to happen next! That
part I LOVED and it left me feverishly reading and turning pages.
However I would like to warn you that I feel this next part might be
considered a spoiler though I also think that this needs to be
mentioned so I'll leave it up to you to choose if you'd like to continue. For those of you that are still reading (listening) and want to
know, this is not a typical romance. It really isn't a romance at
all actually. Instead this is a story about different kinds of love
and in the end siblings. I mention this because, since I wasn't
prepared for this, it ripped into my own wounds around siblings and
left me unsettled and raw. In the end I wasn't too fond of Samuel
though I LOVE Catherine and her sister and the other characters. The
ending of this book really left me torn. On the one hand it does end
in a good place and I LOVED the Faith messages (I LOVE LOVE LOVE how
the sisters talk about The Lord and call Him The Great Good God and there's one scene when they speak about how Jesus has ransomed us that
is so beautiful and I LOVED that scene). But on the other hand the
end parts really left me wanting. I think that I was more hung up on
what Catherine went through because of Samuel than she was! I would
have personally prefered things to be really different in bigs parts from chapter 22 on to the end. Though as I said that Faith scene was
great, and I loved how Jocelyn worked pieces of chapter 33 on as well.
I also liked how parts of this story reflected what I've had
problem with in some other books I've recently read and mentioned in my reviews,
these parts in 33 on really show the difference between love and
enabling. The balance between still loving someone and yet not
skirting the problems and enabling the issue. Lastly, if you are
going to read this book PLEASE make sure to read the author's note or
at the very least the very end part of the Author's note! LOVE IT
love it!
The songs that I would put with this book are: Look up Child by Lauren Daigle (this really reflected this book for me and I kept thinking about it while reading), Even If by Mercy Me, Confidence by Sanctus Real, Before the Morning by Josh Wilson
*I received a copy of this book for the purpose of reviewing it. This in no way affected my opinion and the above are my true thoughts and feelings about Between Two Shores. ~ASC
