My Thoughts on Between the Sound and Sea by Amanda Cox

 

About:

Every family has its secrets. Josephina "Joey" Harris wouldn't mind if her family still had a few of their own after a lawsuit tarnishes their name. When an opportunity opens to become a temporary keeper of a decommissioned lighthouse on a North Carolina island, she takes the opportunity to escape the scrutiny of her small town to oversee its restoration.  

 

Soon Joey discovers strange notes tucked deep in the crevices of the lighthouse's old stone walls--pages torn from a keeper's log recounting harrowing rescues at sea. When things start to go amiss on the island, locals are convinced that it is the ghost of the lighthouse keeper and his daughter who were lost at sea during World War II.

As Joey sifts through decades of rumors and legends and puts together the pieces of the past, a love story emerges--one that's clearly not over yet.

My Thoughts:

This story was beautiful both inside and out. This cover really caught my attention and made me want to read this story. And the story was beautiful like a beautiful piece of art, in this case a lighthouse, slowly being restored. Or at least that is how I saw it.

While not quite a time slip novel, this story does set our characters on their journey while trying to solve some mysteries of the past. A love story that never had a chance to grow due to war and death. How another love and a lifetime sprang up instead. There were some difficult questions the author allowed her characters to ask, and I appreciated that.

I also was intrigued, yet again, at how close WWII came to our shores here in the US. This story delves into a little bit more of what was going on just off the shores of the Carolinas.

This is a story of how life really can turn everything that we planned on end. Time just keeps marching on, away from our happiest childhood experiences to a time when we just need to let go and move forward. And like the main character, Joey realizes, when does she start living instead of planning life for others. A legend, a mystery, and a couple of love stories with the backdrop of restoring an old lighthouse was just the story I needed to dive into.

I was provided a copy of this novel from Revell through Interviews and Reviews. I was not required to post a positive review, and all views and opinions are my own.

About the Author:

Amanda Cox is the Christy Award-winning author of The Edge of Belonging, The Secret Keepers of Old Depot Grocery, and He Should Have Told the Bees. She holds a bachelor's degree in Bible and theology and a master's degree in professional counseling, but her first love is communicating through story. Her studies and her interactions with hurting families over a decade have allowed her to create multidimensional characters that connect emotionally with readers. She lives in Chattanooga, Tennessee, with her husband and their three children. Learn more at AmandaCoxWrites.com.