Reviews - Proud Pink Sky | The StoryGraph

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Proud Pink Sky

Redfern Jon Barrett

3.73 AVERAGE

lsayh's review

4.25

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

hallie_ray's review

4.0

challenging mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

alexture's review

adventurous tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

The main negative review I see about Proud Pink Sky is that nothing happens.

I don't agree.

Some things happen, maybe too much, actually. And outside of what happens, there's the world-building − after all, that's what we're coming for.

And the world-building has its issues. The idea is nice, and who among us hasn't dreamed of a queer haven in the world? But why would the rest of the world hate queer people so much more than in our current world? Why does the author want trans people to keep suffering so much all the time? And most importantly, when a butch and a femme who love each other move in together, which neighbourhood do they live in?

An unacceptable plot hole.

(More seriously: this book was nice enough, but honestly, it's one of these books where I hope they will inspire someone else to do the same, just better.)

Content Warnings

posthumusly's review against another edition

2.0

I just couldn't get into this. The characters and slang put me off.

laur1099's review

2.75

slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Soooo slow to get to the plot. The end is kind of a cliffhanger and very anti-climactic and like ???? Such an interesting concept for a book and im sad that it was more of a "what if im the victim in every reality" author self-insert and less of a fully fleshed story.