by Susan Roberts
When an astronaut is lost in space, his wife relives their epic love as she attempts to unravel what truly happened to him, in this sweeping love story set against the backdrop of the 1960s Space Race.
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| July 2026; Berkley; 978-0593816950 audio, ebook, print (352 pages); historical fiction |
I went into this book expecting not to like it -- something in the blurb just didn't hit me right. I sure am glad that I gave the book a chance because I loved it. It probably helped that Artemis II had just landed, and my interest in space travel was as high as it had been during the space race of the 1960s.
What it is about
This beautiful love story is set in the 1960s when Joe Mitchell's spacecraft loses contact with Earth. He and the other astronauts on board are presumed to be dead. As his wife Vivian waits to find out if they are truly lost in space, she spends her time re-living their love story in her mind. She can't accept that their perfect love story may be at an end. After the malfunction is blamed on operator error, Vivian knows that she has to do whatever she can to clear her husband's name. Is this how their love story ends?
Two Timelines
The author does an excellent job of telling the story in dual timelines -- one is the story of Joe and Vivian meeting and falling in love, and the second is the endless hours after the spacecraft goes missing. I preferred the earlier timeline, but both were well done. Also, I thought that the first half of the book was much stronger than the ending.
The Verdict
I grew up in the 60s and always paid attention to the space race, so this book brought back a lot of memories. Another great book by this author.
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Susan Roberts grew up in Michigan but loves the laid-back life at her home in the Piedmont area of North Carolina where she is three hours from the beach to the east and the mountains in the west. She reads almost anything but her favorite genres are Southern Fiction and Historical Fiction.
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