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A Soft Place to Land

by Susan Rebecca White

Reviewed by Coral


After the death of their parents in a tragic accident, sisters Ruthie and Julia are separated, sent to live with different family members.

Over the next two decades, they struggle with maintaining the close relationship they once had, while grief, anger and jealousy threaten to tear them apart.

I felt like the prologue and first chapter gave away too much of the book. While the sisters were still at the moment when they first learnt of their parents’ death, we were getting glimpses into the future including a career path and two major life moments Ruthie and Julia would be encountering. I would have liked to have learnt about these events organically, as they happened, and not ahead of time.

I wish more of the book had been told from Julia’s perspective. While I felt like I understood Ruthie by the end of the story, Julia felt more like a question mark.

I know how true to life it can be to not have answers, or to have things neatly wrapped up in the end, but I do wish that we could have known more about what Ruthie and Julia’s parents were thinking when they made up their will and that there could have been an epilogue of shorts to wrap the story up. The end of the book most definitely didn’t feel like the end of the story, which was frustrating.

Grade: B