A Single Light

A Single Light (The Line Between #2)
By: Tosca Lee

Intense.

Tosca starts out by letting us in on the happenings inside the bunker. When Noah’s daily messages stop coming the people are left wondering what is going on outside the silo and what the world be like when the door finally opens? Tosca captured my attention right away with the mystery and suspense. The added deadline of finding medicine for Julie before she died magnified the urgency and kept the pages flipping.

The finding of the medicine occupied most of the book which surprised me a little. I thought there would be more focus on the terrorism aspect and the drama of creating the vaccine. Its hard to know which would have been more exciting. However I recognize that in order to do that we would not have been able to keep the seamless singular POV through Wynter so it makes more sense as is.

I loved the chase and the action and that Tosca wasn’t afraid to kill off her characters. It elicits more emotion and engagement with the story and the outcome.

I liked seeing Wynter escaping the isolation of the Enclave just to enter into the isolation of the silo and how we got to see her character grow through her different captivities.

One thing I wished would have been handled differently was the answer to the security footage tape showing Noah and the others leaving the farm. We got the answer later but it was obscure and didn’t fit the tone of the tape. It was basically a side note instead of the ominous and important role it first appeared to have.

Also, a tiny annoyance was how a lot of the sentences started without a subject, i.e. statements starting with ‘can’ and ‘am’ etc. just felt disjointed reading those in my head, I almost always caught myself rereading them to see if I missed something.

All that to say, another great Tosca Lee book and was a satisfying sequel to The Line Between!

Bonus shoutout for Kearney and Runza and Des Moines!

** I received an ARC via Netgalley**