Sweet Tea and Critiques

  Hope Between the Pages By Pepper Basham Grab your box of tissue before you start this book, because once you start it, you’re not going to want to put it down, and you’ll need the tissues handy. I’m not sure I can do justice in my review except to say the book is lovely. Basham pulls off the dual time story flawlessly It’s a dual time story, which isn’t my favorite story method, mostly because you just get involved in one story only to be abruptly interrupted by the other. But, Basham has done the best job I’ve seen, because both stories so intertwine that you’re learning things about the past while living the story of the present. I didn’t have that feeling of interruption. The characters are rich and you’d truly like them if they were real people you knew, except for the villains, who are dastardly indeed. Oliver and Sadie are the couple from the past, and Clara and Max are the present day couple. Oliver and Clara saw people for their hearts, not for their station or ap