The light between ocean book review | by M.L. Stedman

2020-09-21T22:54:00.001-07:00

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The light between ocean book review.

Today I am going to be doing a review on THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS by M.L. Stedman.This story takes place in 1920s Australia. You are following Tom who is a lighthouse keeper on this island, I believe off the coast of Australia. And he ends up getting married to this woman named Isabelle and he brings his wife out to the island. And they basically just live their lives almost completely in isolation.

They live there for almost the entire year. He has to serve for, I think, like a 3 year term. So he basically is therefore an entire year, they get like a month off when they go back to the mainland. And they will go visit Isabelle's parents. But they're basically by themselves for the majority of the time.

So you're following this couple and they're trying to have kids, but the wife keeps having miscarriages. And then finally, right when the wife has, I believe, either her second or third miscarriage, like a couple days later Tom goes out to check on things on the island and he finds a boat that's been washed up on shore. And he finds a man who is dead, as well as a baby that's still alive.

So Tom's job, being a lighthouse keeper, is to like keep track of everything that happens on the island and to like report anything weird or different or any changes that happen. And so technically he's supposed to report this finding and like do something about it. But he brings the baby home and his wife Isabelle ends up getting really attached to the baby and somehow convinces Tom to just not report it.

So they end up taking in the child and raising it up as if it was their own child. And then, obviously, they end up living on the island and consequences occur. [laughs]I won't get into it any more than that because the rest would probably be considered spoilers.But there are obviously consequences to their actions. This was a really interesting book to read.I will definitely give it that. Like at the very beginning, I think it covers an interesting period of time and an interesting place. Like, at least personally, I don't read a lot about the 1920s in Australia. So it was really nice to have that sort of story being told. There is a lot of information given in the book about that place and about what was happening in history. So you do learn a little bit about Australian history by reading this book, which I personally really like. This is a little bit of a slower novel, so if you don't like stories that are more like slow burns, then this is probably not the book for you. But,again, I don't mind that.

I actually really liked it and liked how descriptive it was.I think it was well written and I think the story and the situations that are brought up in this book are really engaging. But I do have to say that I wasn't completely in love with this book. I had a lot of problems with it, especially the ending. If you saw August wrap up, you saw me like mention this book really quickly and I said that the felt really "schmoopy". [laughs] And it's still a word I stand by even though it's not really a word. But the problems that I had with this book were mainly the ones I had with like the last third or so. I'm not really happy with the way it ended. It felt like the author made everything just a little bit too nice. And I don't want to say too more than that because I feel like I'm going to end up ruining this book for people and I don't want to do that. So I am just going to say I found the ending disappointing. If you've read the book, you can discuss it down below, just make sure, you know, mark it spoilers or whatever because I'd love to talk about this book with people. But I just really did not like anything about the way this book ended. There's like a big turning point in the story and you know what it is if you have read it.

As soon as that turning point happened, I could feel myself getting more and more just like disheartened with the book and fallingout of love with the book. So by the time the book was over I was just so like meh about it. I do think this book is good for book clubs though because I feel like this is a book that has a lot of things that you could potentially talk about.

There's a lot of, like, morally gray areas or ways that you can see like multiple sides of the story so I think this would be a good book club book because I feel likeit would bring about a really good discussion. Like I don't think this is a book that everyone would love and I don't think it's a book that everyone would hate. I feel like you are going to find throughout the spectrum because a lot of the stuff that happens, like, it could have gone multiple ways and I can see people's feelings falling across the board.

So in the end I gave this book a 3 out of 5 stars and I feel like I can't really recommend this people unless I really know you really well because I feel like this is a book that you just kind of have to try for yourself and see if you enjoy it. If the premise sounds interesting to you, I would say just give it a try, there's no harm.

But I can't necessarily say, like, everyone's going to love this book or this is a book to definitely pick up. So yeah, those are my quick thoughts on THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS by M.L. Stedman. If you've read this book, again, feel free to leave your comments down below. I'd love to talk about this with people who've read it.

I know there were a couple people who said that they really loved it, like they commented whilethey saw that I was reading it, stuff like that. So definitely leave comments down below, I want to talk about this book with people. So yeah, that's all I have for now and thanks for reading.

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The light between ocean book review | by M.L. Stedman

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The light between ocean book review.