Lines

By: Sung J. Woo

Narrated by: Kelly Wilkinson

On a foggy morning in New York City, a man and a woman are about to run into each other, literally. Upon impact, they fall to the ground in an instinctively protective hug. The fog dissipates, and they stare into each other’s eyes in disbelief, at the sheer magnitude of their bodily collision and their subsequent, spontaneous coupling. They laugh. The man, a writer, invites the woman, an artist, for coffee and they talk until lunch. They date. They fall in love, hard. They marry just two months later. And four years later, their marriage is on the precipice of disaster.

On a foggy morning in New York City, the same man and woman pass through the fog, oblivious of each other’s existence. Until five years later, when the writer finds an oval-shaped locket no bigger than his thumbnail, a tiny white dress painted within the boundary of its golden border.

Lines is about possibilities, about the choices we make – or fail to make. It’s a star-crossed love story; it’s a bitter tragedy. It’s about Josh and Abby and their intertwined lives, together and apart, through births and deaths and the beautiful mess in between.

©2024 Sung J. Woo (P)2024 Sung J. Woo

What If?

An interesting tale interweaving two time lines and what happens to two people in those time lines, where in one they meet on a foggy morning and in the other they meet years later. The different lives they lead and the choices they make kept me fascinated. The one issue I had was it wasn't always a clear change from one time line to the other, but that may have been intentional. The narration was great.

I received this book for free in exchange for an honest review.