Review: In Between Earth and Sky by Heidi Hutchinson
Title: In Between the Earth and Sky
Author: Heidi Hutchinson
Genre: Contemporary Romance
What happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object?
Remington Rohan was not a rule follower.
Former model (though not one of the “super” kind), successful influencer and life coach. Currently paid to tell people how to achieve the best from their lives and careers. In other words, a complete contradiction to how he preferred to live—namely, on his own terms and without input from others.
Everything about his life was going according to plan.
Until he started spending way too much time with a woman who defied his prejudices and challenged his beliefs.
Lydia Larkin was not a genius.
Gifted, clever, and stubborn. Raised on star maps and Hendrix, she was born an explorer. Temporarily tied down to a private sector science job, she knew she was biding her time before she was off to discover and build something new.
Not one to let society tell her who she was, she wasn’t about to let a professional influencer tell her she had to change to be happy.
In Between the Earth and Sky is a fantastically complicated character named Lydia. I love that she is not the cookie cutter romance female lead. She is a botanist and a loveable smart aleck. She loves things in nature most people overlook. Knowing she has a love for renegades; more specifically Han Solo made her borderline perfection.
"Oh I am well aware that the most beautiful things in nature are also complicated...and dangerous." This danger to Lydia comes in the form of the very handsome Remington. I was not sure how to feel about Remington at first, but much like Lydia...he grew on me. I just adored the back and forth, but Lydia was the master. "People lick buttholes for fun. But tasting dirt is somehow odd." This was a book of love and relationships and also completely mesmerizing and entertaining.
ARC provided for an honest review.
Heidi Hutchinson was born in South Dakota and raised the exact right distance away from the Black Hills. She had an overactive imagination very early on, and wasted no time in getting most of her friends in trouble due to her unrealistic and completely ridiculous ideas. Seeing as she was so lazy and also afraid people would think she was bonkers, she didn't write down any of the story lines that played out in her daydreams.
During her high school years, she took pen to paper and filled more notebooks than she is proud of with angsty, depressing, self-deprecating poetry. This led to her writing down more things: notes, ideas, character bios, plot twists that had no plot yet to twist. After years of cleaning up her own scraps of imagination with nothing solid to hold on to, she sat down and wrote the story that had been in her head the longest. Fueled by coffee and her unwavering and perfectly normal devotion to Dave Grohl, she discovered a writer living inside of her.
She still lives in the Midwest, though not as close to the Black Hills as she would prefer, with her alarmingly handsome husband and their fearless child. They eat more pizza than God intended and she listens to her music the same way she lives: loudly.
