In the middle of last year some friends and I decided that we wanted to start a book club! We all love reading, well most of us love reading, wine, cheese and good company so we decided why not! A book club seems like a brilliant idea!!!
We have read a few books so far:
2014
- A Casual Vacancy by JK Rowling
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
- The Tournament by Matthew Reilly
- the secret keeper by Kate Morton
- Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
2015
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman
- This is where I leave You by Jonathan Tropper (current book!)
So I used to oscillate between buying the 'real' hard copy of the book (if I can find it cheap enough) or buying the eBook and reading it on my Kobo. I do love my Kobo and it's SO great to travel with, but there is just something about reading a real book that you can't beat! In my opinion anyway!
For The Light Between Ocean's however I went with the eBook as I had the pleasure of enjoying a relaxing holiday in Hawaii in March and I knew it would be the perfect time to get some quality reading done (in fact I finished 3 books while I was there!). The Kobo is just SO easy to travel with and I knew I would read more than one book so it was far more convenient to get the eBook!
It took me a while to get into The Light Between Ocean's, and to be honest I have mixed feelings about this book. While I think it's very well written, well done to Stedman for that! It just wasn't really my kind of read. It probably took me at least half of the book to really get into it.
The book follows the journey of Tom, after four years away at war, who signs up for the solitary life of a lighthouse keeper. Tom meets Isabel, they fall in love, marry and she accompanies him to the lighthouse. This book follows their journey as husband and wife and moral and ethical decisions are rife in this book. It does really make you think about your own values and morals. Did they make the right decision? What would you have done in their shoes?
To me, Isabel is not a likeable character, and I wasn't a massive fan. Tom however I really liked.
I will say once I got half way through the book I did have to finish it - It really made me want to know how the book ended. And not to give anything away but I did spend pretty much the whole last chapter or so crying.
It was a short read, and I finished it in a few days. It was a good choice for our book club too as we have quite a wide variety of readers in the good who all like different genres (I'm a fantasy/magic girl usually!).
I would recommend reading it, even though it won't make my top 10 this year!!!
3.5/5 stars :)
- Check out my current reading list on Good Reads https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/42784263
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