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Interesting Facts About Space by Emily Austin

79 reviews

lindseyhall44's review

emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Ever since reading Everyone in this Room Will Soon be Dead, I’ve known that Emily Austin is something special. The characters that she wrote connected with me on such a personal level, and I was expecting the same for this novel. I’m so happy to say that Interesting Facts about Space was even more wonderful than I could have ever predicted. As a socially awkward, anxious, lesbian who often wonders if she is a bad person, this felt tailor made for me. There is so much light in these pages.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Bullying, Fire/Fire injury, Infidelity, Lesbophobia, Suicide attempt, Abandonment, Mental illness, and Self harm

dev921's review

emotional funny hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Infidelity, Grief, Suicide attempt, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Self harm, and Injury/Injury detail

spec_tacles's review

challenging dark funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Mental illness, Fire/Fire injury, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Lesbophobia, Death of parent, Homophobia, Stalking, and Grief

randeerebecca's review

emotional funny hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, and Abandonment

Moderate: Outing, Abandonment, and Pregnancy

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Homophobia, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, and Self harm

jen_sometimes's review

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, and Death of parent

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

skywhales's review

dark emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

oh my god. like oh my god. emily austin i will swear my loyalty to you forever if you want just say the word

i like characters who are very different from me a lot of the time. there are a lot of ways to enjoy characters. but i don't think i've felt seen the way i felt seen reading this book in my entire adult life. enid is a lesbian with a weird relationship to gender who's probably autistic. she plans out her social interactions and replays them in her head later. she shares fun facts with her mom. she's worried she's a terrible person. she's a different person to everyone in her life. she overthinks and lets her anxiety take over and has weird and bad and maladaptive coping mechanisms and god i loved her. i genuinely felt my breath taken away by how much i related to her at times.

honestly every character in this felt so real and genuine and likable (mostly) with their own quirks and flaws and i found myself finding something to like in all of them. particularly polly. sometimes it's hard for me to see what the narrator sees in a love interest but i adored her. she wasn't perfect but that just made it all the easier to see why she fell for the equally strange and imperfect enid.

and this won't make sense until you're at that bit but "i love weird little bugs, remember?" made me exhale and close the book and hold it to my chest because i had such big feelings.

god. fuck. i think i also really like books that are depressing, and sad, and deal with fucked up shit, but end in a way that reminds us that despite all that, things can be good. and we can be good and we can get better. my problem with a lot of "cozy" fiction is that it feels afraid to deal in dark topics in more than a few brief mentions, or else dark topics come out of nowhere and feel so shocking that they throw you out of the narrative entirely. i Love, however, books that are dark and sad and occasionally get worse before they get better but they do get better. i think it might hit harder when we actually see the protagonist having to fight so hard for that improvement.

also i have a lot of mostly negative feelings about true crime stuff and was wary about that going in but i think it was not only tied very well to the character but the worst elements of it were discussed and touched upon in a way i was worried they wouldn't be.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Lesbophobia

leontyna's review against another edition

challenging medium-paced

4.0

I really liked the book at the beginning, but in the middle I got a bit bored/annoyed at the MC. The ending though fit quite neatly with the story, so I would say it's still worth a read.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Ableism, Suicide attempt, Death, and Homophobia

megtall's review

dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders and Mental illness

Minor: Toxic relationship, Homophobia, Outing, Infidelity, Fire/Fire injury, Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts

heartlibraries's review

funny mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I LOVE THIS BOOK!!!!!!! 

- Sometimes the best lesbian romance novels aren't marketed as romances at all
- I love Enid so much
- I now understand why people have "book boyfriends" because Enid is my book girlfriend
- I can also fix her
- Autistic lesbian representation is always a welcome plus

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Bullying, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Infidelity, Murder, Stalking, and Violence

None of these things actually happen to Enid-- she's just a true crime junkie.

ryannreidreads's review

challenging emotional mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Reading this was like reading my brain

as an autistic person with an anxiety disorder.

This book was kinda challenging for that reason. If you’ve ever not been able to trust your memory and are secretly terrified you’re a bad person, you’ll probably find a lot of camaraderie in Enid. 

Such a great, relatable, queer read that wasn’t about queerness but still added to the plot. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Suicidal thoughts