Running Barefoot

Can someone please tell me why I end up a blubbering mess at the end of every Amy Harmon book?? Honestly. I don't know why I waited so long to read this one. I was hesitant because it's one of her earlier books and sometimes, for me at least, I can tell a difference in an author's writing between an earlier book of theirs versus a more recent one and I was afraid Running Barefoot wouldn't have the same emotional impact on me as From Sand and Ash or The Law of Moses. I was CLEARLY wrong.

I couldn't put this book down once I started it. Samuel and Josie's story is beautiful, first built on friendship and then molds into something different over the years that this story takes place. The same overwhelming emotions are there in Running Barefoot just as they have been in Amy's other books, along with the poetic writing I've come to love so much. I could read Amy's words forever and never get tired of them.

So cute! it reminded me of Eleanor and Park at first, because Samuel and Josie were picked on and started a friendship on the school bus. It was a bit provincial, but with a sweet taste that lingered on. The kind of clean love story one used to read twenty years ago, recommended at school, you know? sweet surprise.
Also, they trash Wuthering heights, and it's a fresh new perspective to do so after all the Twilight hoopla.