romance
Josie and Samuel become friends on the school bus but their
age difference mandates that Samuel needs to sever ties when he graduates.
Years later after becoming a Marine, Samuel returns to Josie’s small town to
visit his grandparents.
You know what’s going to happen. It’s no mystery. But it sure takes a while to get there. Running Barefoot is a very chaste romance novel. The
first half is about a high school relationship which was sweet but didn't grab me. This is the first novel of Amy Harmon’s that I haven’t felt was completely unique. It is also my least
favorite by far. I think it was one of her first novels, judging by the
publishing date. All the other novels I’ve read have had common factors but the
stories are completely different. This
one felt a lot like a combination of two of her other novels, A Different Blue
and Making Faces. These two novels were published the year after Running
Barefoot. So, I guess working through
Running Barefoot helped her make the other two novels better. I would recommend those two novels but not
this one. It was long and full of
tangential tales and written letters which, in my opinion,
sucked any momentum from the main storyline.
Harmon definitely improved her novel-writing skills after this one. It still has her signature wonderful
characters and she definitely has always been good about describing romance and
love.
The audiobook was narrated by Tavia Gilbert who has also
narrated two other Amy Harmon novels I’ve heard, including A Different
Blue. She’s really great at a variety of
voices and accents and male voices. I
give her an A+.
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