Book Review - Slanting Towards The Sea

Title: Slanting Towards The Sea

Author: Lidija Hilje (Debut Author)

Publisher: Simon & Schuster 

Genre: Literary Fiction

Happy Pub Day—7/8

{Thank you @simonandschuster + @simon.audio (via @librofm) for the #gifted copies of Slanting Towards the Sea by Lidija Hilje.  The audiobook is narrated by Imani Jade Powers who made the author’s beautiful words leap off the page.  She made me feel like I was in Croatia where the story takes place.}

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, but some of the best books I read are often the hardest ones to review.  How can I properly articulate how beautiful the writing is in this book?  How engrossed I was?  How much I was routing for the characters?  Then there is the moment where you feel like you’re reading a book at the exact perfect time.  It was the way our main character Ivona describes the love for her country of Croatia, despite all its many flaws, not always being there for her, the difficulties, and hardships; she acknowledges all these things, but calls it home anyway and fiercely loves it—that really spoke to me and felt so relevant. 

I was hooked from the first sentence . . . “Sometimes I stalk my ex-husband .”  I didn’t know where this was going to go, but I needed to know.

Coming-of-age—for both the characters and a country. Spanning twenty years. Life-altering summer in Croatia. Love story for the ages. 

“What if I mess it up?  What if I get it right?  What if getting it right is messing it up?”

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ All the stars!

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