Review: Sets up the novel well
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 15, 2011
'The Story of Us' is the pre-novella toThe Ocean Between Us, and it's a great set-up to the novel.  The Ocean Between Us is all about what happens when Steve and Grace Bennett's marriage is on the verge of collapse.  This short read tells in detail how Steve and Grace got there.  We read about how they met, how Grace wholeheartedly supported Steve's Navy career, and how the two of them began the patterns that would follow them throughout their marriage.  It's clear that Steve and Grace are deeply in love, but they do have very serious issues they need to confront, and throughout The Story of Us, they continually ignore those problems.  I read it after I read The Ocean Between Us, and I don't think readers will have any problem reading them in this order, despite the fact that it's chronologically backwards.