The Space Between Words (Paperback)

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I really enjoyed this contemporary novel. It starts off with three American backpackers planning their last night in Paris which ends in disaster. The tale is told in the first person by the protagonist, Jessica. We watch her cope with the aftermath of an event where she barely survived and how s...

from LudieGrace

I enjoyed this book a lot. (Four stars is a high rating for me--I rarely give five, unless a book nearly tips over into "favorites" territory.) I thought that the central conceit--survivor of the Paris attacks copes with her trauma while researching the struggles of a particular seventeenth-centu...

from Harley0326

The book was mesmerizing and chocked full of history about France that kept my attention. There were times I think I was lost in the book but the author does a great job of bringing it all together at the end. What happens to Jessica at a concert was eerily close to something that happened just r...

from PamelaBarrett

As I began to write this review on The Space between Words, there has been another terrorist attack in England, and so Jessica's story resonated ever more deeply in my heart and mind. This is a fictionalized story about a young woman named Jessica who was badly injured in the Paris Nightclub atta...

from tamidale

I started reading this while on vacation and could not remember what it was about, which turned out to be a good thing. I was in for a pleasant and enjoyable read with no preconceived expectations. The main character, Jessica, is a survivor of a terrorist attack in Paris and as she deals with PTS...