Book Review
The Line Between

THE LINE BETWEEN by Tosca Lee Is A Thrilling Page Turner of Apocalyptic Proportions

In 2022 I decided to step out of my normal reading comfort zone – romance, romantic suspense – to read genres I haven’t even considered before. I will be honest, The Line Between was a book in a genre that I was resistant to.  Nothing against Ms. Lee, but when I read I stay away from anything religious or religion based. As The Line Between is categorized as Religious Mystery I was quite hesitant.

I am SOOOOOO happy I took the chance and read this book. It was amazing, probably one of my top reads EVER.

Yes, Christianity is in the book; yes religion plays a major part in one character’s life but this was not a book focused on religion.

This book was published in 2019, well before the start of the COVID pandemic of 2020-2022 that paralyzed the world with lock-downs, shortages and all the craziness that the US and the world have been dealing with. BUT IT IS SO EERILY SIMILAR to what we have been dealing with, what we could have been dealing with it’s a little spooky.

The book features Wynter Roth, who has been expelled from the doomsday cult she and her sister have grown up in. Through flashback chapters we get glimpses of how the “Select” (what the members are called) live their lives.

Needless to say, when Wynter is forced out of New Earth (the name of the compound) she experience culture shock. Her deceased mother’s best friend, Julie, as well as Julie’s family, are there to help Wynter become acclimated to this foreign world she has been thrust back into.

Just when Wynter is starting to get her bearings, a pandemic spreads through the world, causing the infected to become crazed. The illness spreads slowly, infecting a few before it explodes, infecting millions.

In The Line Between we see Wynter grow from a timid, frightened woman, to a strong hero. She reconciles her past with the new world and because of her upbringing is uniquely qualified to survive the apocalypse she finds herself in the middle of.

Recommend?

I recommend this book to everyone who thought the worst of COVID, who though COVID was no big deal, to anyone who ever wondered how society could implode or how anyone could get swept up into a cult. This book is amazing AND there is a sequel that is already out.

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