Book Review - The Light Between Oceans

For my birthday I was lucky enough to get a gift card to Barnes & Noble! Our dear family friend Barbra knows me well, and knows how much I love to read! Since I also just got my Samsung Galaxy Note, I wanted to try out reading a book on my new note, which worked out perfectly since it came loaded with the Barnes & Noble Nook app. So for my first read I decided to purchase a book I stumbled on that was highly rated and looked interesting.

In terms of reading on the Galaxy Note versus my Kindle, I def prefer my kindle. It was much easier on my eyes than it was on the note. Even with adjusting the brightness I still found it like reading a computer screen versus the kindle which feels much more like a book. The draw back to my kindle is the lack of light, even with the light on the case, it's not perfect. I'm interested to see the new kindle paperwhite and how that compares. It may warrant an upgrade!

Book Title: The Light Between Oceans by ML Stedman

Book Summary (from Amazon): After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a day’s journey from the coast. To this isolated island, where the supply boat comes once a season and shore leaves are granted every other year at best, Tom brings a young, bold, and loving wife, Isabel. Years later, after two miscarriages and one stillbirth, the grieving Isabel hears a baby’s cries on the wind. A boat has washed up onshore carrying a dead man and a living baby.

Tom, whose records as a lighthouse keeper are meticulous and whose moral principles have withstood a horrific war, wants to report the man and infant immediately. But Isabel has taken the tiny baby to her breast. Against Tom’s judgment, they claim her as their own and name her Lucy. When she is two, Tom and Isabel return to the mainland and are reminded that there are other people in the world. Their choice has devastated one of them.

M. L. Stedman’s mesmerizing, beautifully written novel seduces us into accommodating Isabel’s decision to keep this “gift from God.” And we are swept into a story about extraordinarily compelling characters seeking to find their North Star in a world where there is no right answer, where justice for one person is another’s tragic loss.

Book Review: I found the first 100-200 pages to be a bit slow, while it was interesting there wasn't a great deal that happened that really drew me into the book however it kept me interested enough to continue reading. The third part of the book was where things really picked up and that was def the best part of the book. For that alone I think it was worth the read. I think it was easy to feel the pain that each of the characters were going through as a result of the decisions they made and how they have to come to live with them. Overall I would recommend the book, I did enjoy it, and found myself wanting to read on to see the final outcome of the story.