Candice
I will start by saying I love Shea Ernshaw’s writing. So right out of the gate I know I’m going to at a minimum really enjoy the book.
For this one specifically it starts out as a time bending fantasy - a girl loving on the coast sees a fabled floating island and decides to check it out. She meeting a man. When he ushers her back to her boat to go home after mere hours, turns out on land she’d been gone days. Fast forward, that time greatly shaped her life and when the opportunity to go back to the island (to make sure it wasn’t all a dream) presents itself, Ellie takes it. But now she’s in her 30s. An adult. And the man - he’s the same. Hasn’t really aged at all in all the years Ellie has spent growing up, getting a career, and a fiancee.
Ellie’s return to the island is the bulk of the book. Then we hit like the last 1/4 and time as continued to move forward and unbeknownst to Ellie and Clay, it’s now a post apocalyptic world. So the last of the novel really dives into the post apocalyptic landscape and how they will choose to end their lives together.
Yes there’s romance but not so much that I’d call it a romance forward book. It’s more focused on Ellie’s growth and the feelings she goes through while trying to determine what the “right” path for her life is.
I will start by saying I love Shea Ernshaw’s writing. So right out of the gate I know I’m going to at a minimum really enjoy the book.
For this one specifically it starts out as a time bending fantasy - a girl loving on the coast sees a fabled floating island and decides to check it out. She meeting a man. When he ushers her back to her boat to go home after mere hours, turns out on land she’d been gone days. Fast forward, that time greatly shaped her life and when the opportunity to go back to the island (to make sure it wasn’t all a dream) presents itself, Ellie takes it. But now she’s in her 30s. An adult. And the man - he’s the same. Hasn’t really aged at all in all the years Ellie has spent growing up, getting a career, and a fiancee.
Ellie’s return to the island is the bulk of the book. Then we hit like the last 1/4 and time as continued to move forward and unbeknownst to Ellie and Clay, it’s now a post apocalyptic world. So the last of the novel really dives into the post apocalyptic landscape and how they will choose to end their lives together.
Yes there’s romance but not so much that I’d call it a romance forward book. It’s more focused on Ellie’s growth and the feelings she goes through while trying to determine what the “right” path for her life is.
Meh. I really wanted to love this. The general plot, interesting. But the writing felt half done. There were multiple paragraphs or even baby to back sentences saying the exact same thing like editing was still trying to decide which one they liked better.
The romance was very insta love. And the second “I love you” is said - so now we have sex?
It was just a part big let down after absolutely loving For She is Wrath.
Meh. I really wanted to love this. The general plot, interesting. But the writing felt half done. There were multiple paragraphs or even baby to back sentences saying the exact same thing like editing was still trying to decide which one they liked better.
The romance was very insta love. And the second “I love you” is said - so now we have sex?
It was just a part big let down after absolutely loving For She is Wrath.
