The Space Between by Sarah Ready was a good romance story with a star crossed lovers vibe and interesting characters. I'll admit, I saw the difficulties the couple faced from a mile away but despite its predictable turn the story still had a lot of heart. Andrea and Jace were lovable characters and it was easy to root for them. I really enjoyed the narrators! They kept the story moving with excellent narration and really got me invested in the tale.

I was lucky enough to receive this audiobook 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

Jace and Andi come fron two different worlds. Jace brought up in a strong, loving family in the Bronx,raised on music from a young agen. Andi has lived a lavish life of wealth and privilege on the upper east side, they fall head over heels for each other but fate had a different plan.

On paper, I should not have liked this story with its troops of love at first sight, a bit of a love triangle and second chance romance have never been my personal favorite. However, this story was so well written I could not put it down throughout, I would think about it at work and rush back home to pick it up.

This book was such a roller-coaster of emotions, from a fun story abouts two teenagers falling in love, to a heartbreaking plot and well fleshed out characters with realistic development. On the other hand, there where a few lines of dialogue during emotional moments that, for me, broke the moment, but nothing that spoiled the existence.

I listened to this as an audiobook and both narrators gave an excellent performance. Drawing me into this beautiful story and making me forget that I was listening to fiction.
Overall, I would recommend picking up this book on a rainy day, which I know I will .

I was very confused tbh she was in love with everyone and everything at the same time but go girl get it ig.

I just love how Sarah’s books are all different. Some authors take the same trope and write multiple books, but somewhat of the same story. Sarah doesn’t do that. Every book she writes is different and her writing is always spot on!

Books with bands in them are my jam. I love reading about a good rocker! And this book doesn’t necessarily start out that way, but it is intermingled within the story. It’s also a book about 2 people who come from different backgrounds and really make their connection work. Until, it doesn’t one day.

The Space Between is told from a present storyline and a past storyline. The author did a great of blending them together to fully explain Andrea and Jace’s story. I loved how the book ended, it was perfect in my opinion.

***Thank you Netgalley and W.W. Crown for an ARC copy in return for an honest review***

Andrea and Jace come from different sides of New York. Jace from The Bronx where he lives with his brothers in a run-down apartment, and Andrea from a life of luxury in a penthouse apartment with her famous real-estate giant father and her cold and distant mother. Jace and Andrea meet after Jace, his brothers and band mates perform a show in Central Park when Andrea rescues Jace from his school bullies. Jace and Andrea hit it off after that and start dating, but Andrea lies by omission about her rich status, choosing to hide in cheap clothing instead of her designer looks and never talking about her home life with Jace.

This was a cute story for YA readers, particularly younger teenagers. It wasn't sexual, which parents may appreciate, and captured the innocent love that teenagers often feel for their first boyfriend or girlfriend.

I didn't find anything about this story particularly unique. It was quite cliché and cheesy. The characters didn't feel like real people, which is important to me when I read a story. I couldn't connect with them very well, and they seemed very one-dimensional. The story was also very predictable. It ran as a kind of reversed gender Cinderella story, but there wasn't much more to make it stand out.

While I liked that there were two narrators, one for Andrea and one for Jace, I feel the male narrator's voice wasn't well suited to Jace's character - it sounded too deep and without the right inflections. The narrator's voice for Andrea was much better suited and I enjoyed the dynamics of her speech more.

Overall, it was just ok. Not the worst, but nothing amazing about it.

This one ended up taking my by surprise! At first I didn’t feel like I was really loving it but by the end, with a few twists and a different time line it very much took a turn for the better for me.

The story follows main characters Andrea and Jace. They both tell the story and have their own narrators on the audiobook which was good to listen to. I always prefer when dual perspective novels are read from more than one narrator! Andrea and Jace meet when they’re young and have a whirlwind, deep romance with Andi running off with Jace and his band. A lot happens in this story that takes them from young adult to adulthood with extraordinary responsibilities.

I love the setting of New York when I’m reading so I enjoyed that aspect of this book with all the mentions of Central Park. I listened to this as an audiobook which is the third audiobook I’ve read from this author and I have to say I do enjoy listening to Sarah’s stories! I really loved French Holiday too if you’re looking for more from Sarah you could give it a try.

As I said for Ghosted reading Sarah's books feels like riding a rollercoaster, and this book is no exception.

There is no paranormal or magic aspect, but this had the fated-mates trope all over it, if soulmates existed in real life, Andrea and Jace would totally be liked by a red string, or be a soul divided in two bodies and all of that.

I really loved this book, I enjoyed the falling in love process, the heartbreak (which was totally expected, yet heartwrenching anyways), the reconnection, and all that followed. I even liked Reid, it was quite an unconventional turn, and for a moment there I thought that the ending wasn't what I was expecting, but I ended up enjoying the third part of the book best.
I liked how the author tried to explain how different kinds of all exist and coexist with one another.

Thank you netgalley for letting me read this book.

At first I was not sure I was going to like this book. It felt like reading a textbook.

As I continuted reading, I actually quite enjoyed this book. I loved the storyline and how all the characters grew in the story..

The ending made me sad, but glad it turned out to be a happy ending for a few of the characters.

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"The Space Between" - Honestly? I'm a bit lost when it comes to giving a review for this book.

It is a love story that begins when the main characters are 17/18 years old. They fall in love, everything is perfect and their love will endure anything. However, everything falls apart because of a stupid lack of communication between the characters. After that, the story gets back on track, just like any other similar book. BUT! And at that point, I just couldn't. The last 20% of the book is just pushing more tropes. And I couldn't stand behind them because there wasn't enough build up for them. Love triangle turnes into why choose... It didn't work for me. But overall the story is pretty decent, so if ou ever have a chance, give it a try and let me know what you think about it :)

Thank you NetGally for the audio ARC!

A modern day, Romeo and Juliet. A musical rockin, roller prodigy, from the Bronx and his love, a wealthy girl from the other side of the city. Her parents are totally against the romance. The space between is the space and time they spend without each other. A very satisfying read.I love the story. Love the narrator. Of course I love the author. Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for providing the advanced copy of the audiobook

Disclaimer: I do not believe I am the target audience for this book. This young adult (slightly mature young adult due to explicit sex scenes) was not for me although I often like young adult books.

Review

Let the eye rolling begin. The everyone is perfectly chiseled, amazingly dressed, extreme decor, delicious food (toast flavored champagne?), love like no other was too much. I can’t even with the strawberry scent shampoo or smelling his “shaving soap” ??? and increasingly ridiculous other scents. Or the sensations - like the air conditioning or the leaves or the yellow paint. I could not suspend belief enough to buy into this plot and its timing coincidences. If the love was so true and pure, the subsequent events could not and would not have happened. I blame the editors who I think missed a lot, didn’t hold the author in check or accountable, and appear to have checked out around chapter 50. I almost did too because this book was about 30% too long.

Synopsis: Imagine Ivanka Trump or other jet setter NYC trust fund baby at age 17 named Andrea goes incognito as Andi. Then Lenny Kravitz if he had been born poor in the Bronx with a prep school scholarship and spent his time busking with his brothers as Jayce. The two meet and Shazam! They know they are each other’s forever human. Of course, real life gets in the way and true love must fight so so hard and maybe it still isn’t enough.

Narration: Overall good but I think the producer should have had the female listen to the male narrator. The female narrator made Jayce sound a certain way and the male narrator did not.

Some constructive criticism:

There is an identity crisis- is it “How I met your mother?” The title is explained in Central Park in Part Two but a few chapters in “The Space Between” is defined in a totally different way. One of the two “titles” has got to go in my mind. I can’t see the female character loving strawberry shampoo or if she does, maybe for a year at most. Enough with the strawberry. Cream cheese?!

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Do you really get a new birth certificate? Would you scream and carry on and wake up a baby? Would you read a baby to sleep if she was fully dressed up? Was Jayce 17 when he went to the Tower-I thought he’d just turned 18. Slowly opening her present doesn’t jibe with how she felt watching someone else open a present. Almost empty hot chocolate doesn’t overflow with marshmallows. He simply cannot say Andi was the music or the only home he ever knew was Andi. And as noted, the timing / meeting coincidences just aren’t realistic - eye roll.

This is my first NetGalley read and review. I am so worried about spoilers so pardon the cryptic comments.

Thank you very much for the opportunity to read and review this book.

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!

I thought this was cute. I enjoyed seeing the growth of the characters as they aged over the years and seeing their love story through the stages of life.

Although I didn't love this one as much as French Holiday by this author, I still thought this was an interesting and sweet story. I loved the way that the story was told over a span of decades. It was one of my favorite romance types - a love that keeps two people finding each other throughout their lives and the life they each live in the space between finding each other again.

It was a dramatic love story, and I would recommend this book!

Unfortunately, I was having phone complications, and I had to reset the apps on my phone. When I logged back into NetGalley, I was not able to finish listening to this audio book because it had been archived and was no longer available for download. Therefore I was not able to really delve into/finish this book.

I do have to say, I was enjoying "Andi" aka Andrea. I loved that she was living a secret life of a non-socialite. I have no idea what happened in the story, but I enjoyed the bit that I read.

This was a lot of story in one book. In a way it was 3 different stories interwoven to come together at the end. I really enjoyed the beginning "YA" feel but definitely enjoyed the last 2/3 more. This is now one of my favorite/go to authors.

I think in the end, I didn't vibe with this story as much as I had hoped. A few times I wanted to put it down, with this being said, I dont think it's a bad story by any means, it just didn't gel with me and I've had a similar feeling with this author's other book. I did go in thinking I would reading more about adults, but they were younger in age. The writing overall is good, easy to read/listen to. I did think the dual POV was good to have. In the end if you are a fan of this author, please give this book a try. Thank you to Net Galley and the publisher for an eARC (audio) in exchange for an honest opinion.

This book was okay. not great. I wanted to fall into this book. but it wasn't one of those books for me

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.

The audiobook was done well with dual POV. The narrators portrayed both characters and the tone of the story so well and I really enjoyed the audio.