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Watching for Comets by Jordon Greene

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king_of_saturn's review

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adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

jsncnrd's review against another edition

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4.0

Actual rating 4.5 stars! I will preface this by saying A Mark on My Soul is going to be hard to beat. One of my favorite books I've read this year that quite literally left marks on my soul. Any book thereafter was going to have big shoes to fill. I loved this book, but it will be hard to top the first installment in the Noahverse.

It fascinates me how tragedy can bring people together in its aftermath. The shared effects of trauma. That was so much of what this book explored, and it was incredibly emotional. I loved seeing how the boys navigated grief and the associated feelings differently, but also how they helped each other heal in ways they may not have been able to do alone.

Both of our main boys were pretty great. Tyler frustrated me to extremes at quite a few points, but understanding that his behavior came from a place of hurt made me empathize with him. Aidan... Aidan was a complete angel and I am president of his fan club. He handled everything life threw at him with grace and optimism and I loved his chapters. He was the most caring and selfless human and I just fell in love with him immediately.

Jordon's writing is charged with such strong emotion, and it is balanced perfectly with his ability to highlight moments that are completely magical and adorable as well. The good, the bad, and the ugly. I want ALL of that in a book.

I am so excited to read the next two books in the Noahverse series. Thank you for giving us these beautiful stories, Jordon.

"What if can be anything, and like everything it’s uncertain. What I do know is that what if had me chasing a comet millions of miles away, when the comet I was looking for was standing right in front of me."

fairyhqwl's review against another edition

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2.0

i really wanted to like this book so bad since i loved the first one but this just wasn’t for me

lady_moon's review against another edition

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3.5

Rep: gay MC, Venezuelan-American gay MC, Black side character

I think this book stayed on my TBR a little too long...

Overall, it was a nice read but I was left feeling kinda unsatisfied. I wanted Aiden and Tyler to have a real conversation for once. Discuss Tyler hating him for the dumb reason, how they'll deal with Aiden going to college... like, I don't know, I wanted something serious for a minute.

And don't get me started on the pop references... gods. I get that they're all nerds and all but this was too much. Especially this detailed explanation of the video games, all these films, the whole thing. I got maybe less than the references and this got on my nerves. I usually don't care too much about pop references but they have to be either 1) occasional or 2) I have to know them. I have definitely read worse cases but it was still irradiating.

It's a cool idea but imo the author didn't pull out its full potential.