Elysia Fionn's Reviews > Leaving Rock Harbor

Read this book entirely in one day. It wasn't the greatest day in the world for me, and I guess the book was kind of an escape.

About halfway through the book, I thought "Oh, please don't let this be one of those books where they tease a romance through the entire story and she ends up staying with the safe choice in the end because of money or whatever."

It wasn't.

I'm not a political activist sort of person, so that part of the story was a bit "let's get through this and back to the good part" but happily the plot did not stagnate on that topic.

Very much enjoyed the descriptions of the seaside towns and the clubs and the food, etc. - very realistic and the author caught the liminal feel of the seasons at the seaside extremely well.

Not sure how half the characters didn't end up in rehab centers, they drank constantly and often to excess throughout the story. And no one died from drinking "bathtub gin", even though many people in that time period actually did.

Rebecca Chace is very good at capturing and expressing the "between feelings".... going from child to adult, going from outsider to inner circle, going from friend to lover, going from being taken care of to being a caretaker... makes you realize that most of the important memories in life come from those exact sorts of times.