Recent Reads: Between the Lines by Lindsay Ward

Between the Lines by Lindsay Ward 
Publisher: Two Lions
Publication Date:  Ocotber 1, 2021

 

Format: Ebook
Source: Bought with Amazon Prime First Reads discount in September 2021

Rating:


Goodreads Synopsis: 

With vibrant art that shifts to a colorless world and back again, this is a story of a community lost and rediscovered—and how one child’s actions can cascade into something that makes all the difference.

A young boy who loves his community notices that as neighbors stop interacting, the colors around them slowly fade. Then a thunderstorm sweeps away the last hints of bluebird skies and lemon-Popsicle days and leaves a rift in the road that doesn’t get fixed. As the adults around him move on, the boy dreams of the way life once was. He decides that he doesn’t want to live in a world without color, so he sets out to change things…

Review: 

When a bright and vibrant neighborhood loses its colors it is a young boy that realizes that the broken relationships might be the reason. 

This book was a bit difficult to understand. It is mostly visuals and not a lot of text to give an explanation. There is a thunderstorm and rain that seemling whipes out all the vibrant color and then to get it back the community has to come together... but nothing tells them that.

I wanted to like this book a lot - it seemed like a really neat artsy aesthetic that I could get behind, but the lack of understanding kind of threw it off for me. It eventually all came together at the end but there was a disconnect between the imagery and the text for me. 

Overall, though, the book was very pretty, the pictures were detailed and the in-color pictures were bright and cheerful.