Between the Lives by Jessica Shirvington - review

The story of a double life. Sabine, a young, intelligent, pretty girl lives two lives, one with a rich family, the other with a working class family. In one life she's the popular girl, the other life she's the unnoticed girl. She swaps through lives each and everyday. Everything is perfectly different, apart from her.

Then when she gets the chance to escape from one of her lives, will she be able to make the right choice or will love's enchantment take over her mind?

A chilling story about two different lives. This book will keep you on your feet, up at night and always wanting more with it's edgy and interesting storyline. It criticises human nature and the way some of us, or a lot if us, deal with and react to situations we are placed in and when things happen to people- how our opinions of them change. How in some cases, even if we feel sympathy for them we don't look at them in the same way and how we can turn on each other in a split second.


Peer pressure. Or simple everyday pressure, one of the characters in this book experiences a lot of this and I think it's a valid point, as it happens to us teenagers all the time. The way the story mixes romance and pressure, how it creates this kind of teen romance dream, like The Notebook, which cannot be a bad thing because The Notebook is a great, sad story, but it is still life like because we are always being cornered into these situations when we shouldn't have to be. We shouldn't feel like we have to live up to other peoples expectations of us and how you should be able to love whoever you want to love and be with whoever you want to be with, not necessarily having to stay in an everlasting, unloving relationship. Of course it only gets worse for the person when they find out what true love is and realise that is what they really, truly want.

I think this book fully deserves the 7/10 I am giving it and would definitely recommend people to read it because it is an interesting read that will never make you bored, and I know that hopeless romantics would enjoy it.

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