![]() ![]() I couldn't help but compare this to, either. ![]() And I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing, but it just seemed a little off the entire time. It has that sort of first-love intensity with the promise of happily ever after. I just felt the characters were always 3-4 years too young for whatever was happening between them (even in the epilogue)-at least to the seriousness they placed upon it. Harper and Sarah are making pretty big declarations and decisions for being freshmen in high school. I really loved this book, but I really wish the characters were a little older. Their relationship, once the initial meeting took place (the only time I felt their connection was a little forced), progressed in ways that seemed believable for two fifteen year olds still figuring who they are. I'm not exactly sure what drew Harper to Sarah or Sarah to Harper, but I kept rooting for both of them and found them really relatable, even if they sit in two opposite ends of high school social hierarchy. But it's the characters that really kept me engaged. It's sort of Mean Girls meets Imagine Me & You meets Pretty in Pink in all the best ways. There's nothing really groundbreaking in terms of story telling in The Space Between. I'm always thankful for reading all-consuming reading experiences, and I think I'll be thinking about this book for a while. And then I read it a second time and I still didn't want to put it down. I couldn't put this book down, so I didn't. ![]()
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