The Shape of Thunder

When I recently finished a book by Jasmine Warga, I saw The Shape of Thunder listed as another book she'd written, so I got it from the library on Kindle. The book description says, "Cora hasn’t spoken to her best friend, Quinn, in a year. Despite living next door to each other, they exist in separate worlds of grief. Cora is still grappling with the death of her beloved sister in a school shooting, and Quinn is carrying the guilt of what her brother did. On the day of Cora’s twelfth birthday, Quinn leaves a box on her doorstep with a note. She has decided that the only way to fix things is to go back in time to the moment before her brother changed all their lives forever—and stop him. In spite of herself, Cora wants to believe. And so the two former friends begin working together to open a wormhole in the fabric of the universe. But as they attempt to unravel the mysteries of time travel to save their siblings, they learn that the magic of their friendship may actually be the key to saving themselves."

This was a great read. The book switched back and forth between perspectives (which took me awhile to keep track of which name went with which character), but it was a good format for the story. I thought the author did a great job with character development and helping the reader know and understand each girl and what she was going through. I really felt for each of them. The book got me teary-eyed in the end, and I liked how things came together. It was definitely an engaging and meaningful story. It was close to a "loved it," but I'll leave it as "liked it."

* * (2/3 = Liked it)