About the Book
What is it about the coast that attracts people running from their past?
When Olivia moves to Port Townsend, her marriage is floundering, and her life is in pieces. She doesn’t know if things with her husband Mark are truly over, or quite why the phone call she longs for on her daughter’s birthday will never come.
Joining a letter-writing club seems like a harmless decision. But when she meets Ned, an ex-soldier badly wounded in Afghanistan, this unlooked-for friendship revives unexpected emotions and memories she’d rather forget.
Can Olivia find the courage to confront what she’s hiding from and finally begin to heal the wounds that have torn her life apart? From the bestselling author of After You Left comes a story about finding hope in second chances.
My Review
The Shadow Between Us started off slow for me and unfortunately the story was never able to gain steam. There were so many questions I had within the first few chapters of the book and instead of making this suspenseful and giving me the desire to quickly read, I kept getting frustrated by the lack of depth in the story. The story line had an interesting concept but there was too much of a mysterious air for too long that kept me disengaged. I tried to stay with the book as best I could and chose to speed read through some chapters to try to finally get an answer or two and there were some big moments revealed toward the end, but I needed something a little more to keep me interested in the beginning to get that to that point. I do like a lot of Carol Mason stories, but this one just missed the mark for me.
2 stars
