Between Two Shores AUDIO REVIEW!

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