Can love really heal all things? If Sam Carroll hadn't shown up, she might have been able to get to her mother in time. Instead, Allie Everly finds herself at a funeral, mourning the loss of her beloved mother. She is dealt another blow when, a few hours later, she is sent from Tennessee to Maine to become the daughter of Miss Beatrice Lovell, a prim woman with a faith Allie cannot accept. Poetry and letters written to her mother become the only things keeping Allie s heart from hardening completely. But then Sam arrives for the summer, and with him comes many confusing emotions, both toward him and the people around her. As World War II looms, Allie will be forced to decide whether hanging on to the past is worth losing her chance to be loved."
My Thoughts...
Interrupted is quite the novel for an author who was fourteen when she wrote it. The entire plot grabbed my attention and had me flipping the pages near the end. In the first few chapters though, the plot is slow and a bit too drawn out. The main character's mother seems a bit more sick than what the readers knew. The fact that it is in the 1940s makes it doubly more interesting. The main character, Allie, is a times, too annoying to cooperate with. She is stubborn and thinks she knows what is best for her, and these traits were written into her character most of the time easily. Sometimes she would go a bit overboard with her emotions and constantly chooses what she thinks is best. In the second half of the book, most readers might get a bit tired by Allie's refusal of love and Sam's attempts to get her attention. She seems too oblivious to the fact that someone like her can be loved. Sam Carroll was so nice and always happy. Even though at times one might think he would be too happy, there are others who are like that in real life! The ending was sweet and perfect with a touch that is hard to master; Rachel Coker did it perfectly.
-ShewolfLia17
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