Loved it ❤️ beautifully written book about love and hope. Emotional and heartwarming love story. Loved all the characters, Jace, Andrea, and Ried. It's all about love and understanding compassion. Jace and Andi were meant for each other from the start. But, I loved the relationship between Andi and Ried, too. Characters are defined thoroughly and progressively. Love the dual point of view highlyrecommended. .

This book was too painfully slow for my liking. I am definitely in the miniority for this book, but I hope if you like topics like insta-love,celebrity, Dual POV, definitely try reading this one.

I think this was more a me issue than a story issue. The writing itself is excellent but the movement was too slow to keep and hold my interest.

I was lucky enough to receive this book as an ARC via Netgalley.

Jace and Andrea. Andrea and Jace. From the moment of their fate-filled first meeting in Central Park they’ve known one true thing—they’re meant to be. Life doesn’t have many certainties but for Andrea and Jace forever is one of them. Andrea Leighton-Hughes—shockingly wealthy Upper East Sider, a chess-piece in her family’s games since before she was born—knows what it’s like to hide behind a mask. Her world is one of lies, manipulation, and reputation. Jace is the first and only person to see who she truly is. Jace Morgan knows the ugly side of life and he hasn’t always kept his nose clean. A musical prodigy from the Bronx, Jace and his brothers will do whatever it takes to climb to the top of the music charts. Andrea is the first and only person who has helped him play from the heart. No one understands their connection. No one understands their love. As Jace and Andrea struggle to stay together and prove that love defeats all obstacles, life sets out to prove them wrong. What happens when two people promise forever, but life tears them apart? What happens in the time they aren’t together—in the space between?

🎶Opposites Attract

This book at me hooked from the beginning!! I loved Jace and Andrea’s characters. They were so different but so good together. This book had me feeling every emotion possible. I even shed a tear around the 75% mark.

I definitely recommend this book!!

Rating: 4 / 5⭐️’s

My heart! This book was everything i didn't know i needed at the time. The unlikely meeting of a rich upper East side girl and a poor, down of his luck musician from the Bronx, takes us on a roller coaster of emotions throughout the book. Jace and Andrea have the love of a lifetime but entirely too many obstacles to face. Then there is Reid, the not so like-able high school boy who grows up to be a wonderful human. This book, all the characters and all the details made for a great story.

I have been a BIG fan of Sarah Ready's novels from the start. Her Romeo series charmed me, and I was super excited to get an ARC of this latest book through NetGalley. Early reviews promised all the feels with this story. And yes ... it did deliver the feels ... but it took me a LONG time to get hooked on this story, which was disappointing. The slow setup of the relationship between Andi and Jace was simultaneously too drawn out and too superficial. The book really hit its stride in the second act, which came rather late in the book tbh, when complexity in Andi's story arc made for a much more captivating read.

At any rate, I did ultimately find the last third of this book to be satisfying and faster paced, and I finished the second half faaaaaaaar more quickly than I did the first. I'm not sorry I read this, but I am lamenting how many other books I could've sped through more enjoyably while I stuck with this one.

Sarah Ready has already written one of my favorite books this year, French Holiday which was extremely charming and funny. I knew from the moment I read that one that this would be an author to watch for and she solidified my love of her novels in THE SPACE BETWEEN. This is an emotional and heartfelt novel that touched me to the core. It’s an epic love story about two souls who know they are meant to be, but everything seems to want to tear them apart. There’re family issues, heartbreak, betrayal, and everything else under the sun that can hurt two people who just want to be together, and I fell HARD for it. Emotional novels aren’t normally my cup of tea but DANG this book had me hooked. Get ready because once you start reading Jace and Andi’s story you won’t be able to stop until the very end. I loved it!

𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗙𝗘𝗖𝗧 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗙𝗔𝗡𝗦 𝗢𝗙
❥ Epic Love Stories
❥ Emotional Reads
❥ Stories filled with heart that are relatable and hopeful

𝗠𝗬 𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

OMG what a book!! Let me sort through my emotions and find a way to put into words my review
The Space Between by Sarah Ready is not her usual rom-com, instead she has written a stunning but heartbreaking love story about Jace Morgan and Andrea Leighton-Hughes.
The boy who looks like a sinner but sings like an angel and the beautiful rich girl who is his reason for singing and only wants to be with him. It is love at first sight but their journey to a HEA is filled with obstacles which will have you grabbing the tissues. It reaches down into you and pulls out all your emotions over the three parts. I felt the title of the book was so appropriate because I found myself needing ‘the space between’ each part to recover before continuing to read this story that looks at all the different ways to love.

“ A love so big, a song so beautiful, that it heals the world.”

Jace and Andrea are both seventeen but come from totally different worlds. He lives in the Bronx with his brothers Dean and River and plays guitar in their band with best friends Dallas and Pauly. He has struggled since losing his parents so puts everything into his music. Andrea is the daughter of a wealthy businessman and controlled by the obligations to her family. She survives by pretending to be Andi and one day comes across the Morgan Brothers playing in Central Park. One look between her and Jace changes their lives forever. No one understands their love but they promise each other forever.

They become friends and experienced an all-consuming love, positive they are soulmates. He wants to play and make the whole world happy and every song he writes is for her. When the band get the opportunity to go on tour, can she give up everything for him and go with him. Catastrophic events and mistakes are made with devastating results. Does their love fail or was it torn apart? When shocking truths are revealed can there be forgiveness? Can she learn to live again without the one she loves?

A love fourteen years in the making. The space between is their time apart. Have they ended up where they were always meant to be? From the day they met she had been his always and forever. They both knew they were meant for each other even though their journey to be together was a long one. Promises were made and kept, even though the years between have been hard. She always felt a magnetic pull towards him and that force never left her. She has let the past rule her present but showed strength in adversity. Jace continued to sing just for her as he helped fulfil his brothers dreams.

I loved there was no bitterness or regrets and they both accepted things happened for a reason. Their “give me a lyric” saying to each other was very poignant and I looked forward to each line they came up with. I found the guitar incident and how they keep meeting in Central Park very symbolic.

The story looks at family dynamics and friendships, loyalty and forgiveness, guilt and miscommunications, betrayal and lies, grief and loss, the choices made and trauma endured but most importantly the passion and love throughout the book. This is one of my favourite books so far this year, it takes a lot to make me cry and this one did it a lot!! I totally recommend this bittersweet tale. I felt their love and then their devastation and my heart broke with them but then it mended with theirs in the perfect ending.

Man, this book was a rollercoaster of emotions. It’s split into three parts spread over the years. The first part had me falling in love right along with Jace and Andrea. The way they are connected was beautiful. The second part had me bawling. It’s a different kind of love but still so incredibly impactful. The third part is the conclusion.

I loved that this book is full of love. All different kinds of love. It’s full of forgiveness and not having regrets. Sometimes our lives take a turn but it can still circle back. We can have regrets or we can believe we are exactly where we are meant to be. Love truly can conquer all.
One of my favorite quotes was ‘I realized you can forgive without condoning.’ Certain things have happened in my life where I chose to forgive but I still know what happened wasn’t ok. So I really loved that. This book is a heartbreaker but it’ll put your heart back together. It’s really beautiful. I highly recommend reading this if you like Colleen Hoover type of books.

I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily. Thank you to NetGalley, Sarah Ready, and W.W. Crown.

The Space Between by Sarah Ready is a beautiful book! I loved the love story! Even all the back story that leads to the eventual breakup. Just when you think things are looking up your heart gets ripped out again, but hang on it gets better. This is one of those books you don't know you need until you're ready it. I love this author and always look forward to her books!

This book broke me! Beautifully told story, with well developed characters. I think I read it in a day, I could t put it down!

I’ve read many of Sarah Ready’s books and loved them all, but this one is by far the greatest love story ever!

Jace and Andi touched me so deeply!!! Talk about characters you can relate to! I mean, we all obviously don’t go through the same things but we still relate!

Sarah Ready’s words total unraveled me and then put me back together so beautifully!

Absolutely stunning work! Five stars all the way!

I blindly chose this book based off of the author alone. The last book of hers I read was amazing so when I saw this newly published book I jumped on it. It did not disappoint. I want to shout from the rooftop “Why is Sarah Ready not mainstream yet?!?!” (Surely “yet” being the keyword, her books are some of the best I’ve read this year!)

Since this is an arc review, here’s my constructive criticism: I had one, and only one, very small complaint. Early on, Andi (during her POV) used superfluous SAT words a few times. See what I did there? I understand the point was to prove how thorough and pretentious her education was, but as someone who believes this book to be a quick, easy, fun read, I found it distracting. ‘Supercilious’ was one of them. I’m not going to go back and find the others, (there weren’t many, but they did create a snag in an otherwise perfectly smooth reading experience), but if you want an honest opinion of the book, that’s my only complaint.

Now let’s get to the fun part! This book is amazing. It took twists and turns where I least expected it, was somewhat bittersweet in a way that still felt healing, it made me cry—as in hugged a box of tissues several times during part 2 of the book—and still left me with the HEA I desperately need. I was heartbroken each time another large gap in timeline seemed to pass and realized exactly how much I had been swept up into the story, rooting for these fictional characters as if they were friends I wanted to finally get their perfect resolutions. The Space Between hit on several tropes I otherwise wouldn’t engage in (instalove, high school romance, love triangle) but managed to do all 3 in a way that left me desperately unable to put my kindle down and left me reaching for the next book I can find by this author. Well done Sarah Ready, this will be on my rereads list!

Thank you NetGalley for the advanced copy of The Space Between.. Sarah Ready's book is absolutely remarkable. I haven't been able to stop thinking about this beautifully written story about young love, loss, family and coming of age. The way that Sarah Ready portrays all the different kinds of love is magical. 5 stars for Jace & Andi

Andi and Jace come from different worlds, but the second they meet, they know they are destined for each other. They fight to stay together as life threatens to tear them apart in this romance spanning a few decades. I did not pay close enough attention to the official synopsis, because here I was thinking this would be a fun little rom-com like French Holiday (which I also loved, btw), but NO, instead I found myself crying like a baby while listening to this (lol). This follows Andi and Jace in a few different stages of life--as teenagers, in their mid-twenties, and then early thirties--as they navigate life and loss. I enjoyed them as characters and enjoyed seeing their love unfold as well as seeing them grow and come into themselves as individuals during the space between. I thought the narration and overall storyline were also great!

An emotional love story of two people from two very different worlds and with obstacles and people keeping them away from each other, will they ever get to love each other they way the most yearn for? With music being a central theme in the book and Jace being a musician, I loved how there were quotes throughout the story that were so beautifully written they also felt poetic and rhythmic.

The title really grabbed me and I thought it was incredibly fitting. Even Jace and Andi are apart from one another for a good portion of the book, it's important to see how they are and feel when apart because it shows exactly how important it is for them to be together somehow.

Thank you to W.W. Crown and NetGalley for the digital advanced copy in exchange for my review.

My reading of 'The Space Between' e-book was accompanied by the audiobook.
Thank you NetGalley and W. W. Crown for the ARC copy & allowing me to experience this heartwarming novel. I highly recommend this book/audiobook to everyone who enjoys a compelling story. The narration of the audiobook was wonderful.
This book was so different from any other I've read. Not only was it a wonderful love story, but it also had so many unexpected twists, turns, heartbreak and love. It made me feel all the feels. A fantastic story about what happens when two people meet and grow together and apart and all the space in between. Told from the 2 main characters pov. I didn't want the book to end.
This is my first book by Sarah Ready, and now I can't wait to read more of her books. The writing and words flowed and read so easily. The narrators of the audiobook were wonderful as well.

“I think, when we play music, we can reach anyone, anywhere. Music transcends the known world. If you love someone, all you have to do is play music, from your heart” --she touches her hand to her heart and says-- “and they’ll hear you, no matter where they are.”

Oh wow…WOW! The Space Between by Sarah Ready - what an intensely beautiful and angsty soulmate love story! It was unputdownable, it was compelling and one hell of an immense rollercoaster ride where our hearts were shred to pieces until they slowly began to heal. Now, we loved French Holiday by this Author and were expecting something in the same vein, we could not have been more wrong, the angst in this story broke us! The Space Between is without question one of our favourite reads this year and joins a list of stories that so far have made a huge impression on our hearts.

‘The minute I saw Jace plying his guitar in the park, a secret smile on his face, the sun falling over him, I didn’t need to make up a story about him. The story was already there. He was mine and I was his.’

Jace and Andrea grew up ‘worlds apart’, yet both are tied to their past and bound by the restraints of their future. Jace, an incredible musician who’s waiting for his band’s big break falls in love with Andrea, the beautiful rich society girl. The emotional tension and connection between them was palpable. Their love story heartbreaking, beautiful and intensely emotional.

‘Jace asked if I ever thought that maybe where we’ve ended up, is always where we were meant to be. If I hadn’t met him, I wouldn’t have known his love.’

The title of this love story is so incredibly apt. What begins as pure teenage love, is followed by heartbreak and devastation, turning into a beautiful mature and unconditional love. You’ll find everything in between that changes, heals, inspires and grows. What comes after -the space between- ultimately makes everything that much more intense with an unbreakable strength. Beautiful, epic love story.

‘His voice pulls at something deep inside, it reaches down into you and pulls out all the feelings you forgot you ever had…Jace could make a thousand people weep. Or fall in love.’

This was a whirlwind of emotions and I couldn't predict where it would go. This kept my interest through the whole thing and I couldn't even tell it was 500 pages. There was a huge section where the main relationship takes a back seat and I wish it wasn't quite so long because it made the ending less impactful.

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Disclaimer: netgalley gifted me this & I'm leaving an honest review in exchange. All opinions are my own

Oh my god the rollercoaster of emotions is even too much for my bpd ass to handle 😭
I've heard a lot of good things about this author and I can honestly say I believe them. This book is so fucking good and I swear I inhaled it. I say this a lot but if I could cry I totally would. Like,, I am not exaggerating. This book is so good, and I love the part where Andi says she didn't believe there was two kinds of love until *spoiler so I won't say*
My whole heart y'all 😭