The book follows Rachel, who is grieving the recent loss of her wife, and Kenna, struggling with her childhood trauma of not being loved or feeling good enough for her neglectful, self indulgent famous mother. It’s about finding and making your own family when your biological family isn’t the place you can call home.

I really wanted to love this book but I just didn’t connect to the characters enough to care if they got their happy ending or not.

I fell in love with these characters! Kenna's trauma and Rachel's grief felt so real to me, but even with those emotions, this wasn't a tragic or sad story. A glimmer of hope for us all.

I just couldn’t make myself care about the story or the characters. The writing was clunky with sentences either jarringly short, staccato, or overly long, rambling. It might appeal to the YA audience but this grown up struggled.

Although some of the issues the characters had were overcome a bit easily, I enjoyed the emotional and physical journey they took to get to a better place. There wasn't an overload of emotional description but the right amount to get a feel of how past relationships, family, and finding how to live your own life comes to the main characters.

My thanks to NetGalley for the ARC. (And the author for letting me know it was on NetGalley!) Kristy McGinnis took on the challenge of writing a second novel and knocked it out of the park. I loved Ellipsis. Motion of Intervals? I love LOVED it. The writing is even more beautiful. I was IN the car with Rachael and Kenna. I was in each of their sometimes seedy motel rooms. I could smell the boardwalk at Virginia Beach and see the festivities in Key West. Places I have yet to visit in person. I saw myself in many of their habits and flaws. That journey down I95 is one I've dreamed of. This is a novel about friendships, the family that we get vs the one we choose, finding ourselves when others are trying to stick us in a mold. It is about hurt, redemption (or not), and taking the plunge to break out and try something new. It is about coming home, when you don't even know what that home is. It is about what-if's, what-could-have-been's. It is about LIFE. And it is beautiful.

I LOVED this!! From the very first chapter I was hooked, Kenna and Rachel were such fascinating characters with incredibly complex and fleshed out back stories, traumas, hopes and dreams. McGinnis did such a good job of making them easy to root for, and in making Delta feel like an integral part of the story even though she was never actually in it. Tessa was an easy villain, and her chapters were a welcome break to get a glimpse into her cruel mind. The story was packed full of emotions, and the message of finding yourself after grief and abuse. I couldn't put this down, there's something so easy and carefree about the writing that swept me away. Love, love, love, I'll be thinking about this one for a while.