Reviews with content warning for Death - Atmosphere

Reviews tagging 'Death'

Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid

274 reviews

aprilamadon's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous emotional hopeful informative inspiring tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Content Warnings

readingwithtrey's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Content Warnings

lkbp17's review against another edition

5.0

emotional hopeful inspiring tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Content Warnings

serendipitysbooks's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous emotional inspiring medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

The newest offering from Taylor Jenkins Reid is a sapphic love story set against the background of the 1980s space shuttle programme. Reid really knows how to craft a story, and here she uses the dual timeline to particularly good effect. I love a good "woman succeeding against the odds" story, and this book shares many of the same ingredients as her recent books that have made her such a publishing success story. And yet I was left feeling a little underwhelmed without being able to pinpoint precisely why. Possibly, I'm tiring of Reid's style, and it's starting to feel a bit formualic. I know I've been leaning more and more literary in my reading tastes. Maybe the space jargon felt too techy? Could be that knowing the story was fictional made it feel too low stakes - especially since I was confident there were directions Reid wouldn't take the plot . The ending might have felt too emotionally manipulative for my tastes. Regardless, while this is not objectively a bad book and I did enjoy many parts of it, it ultimately didn't land for me in quite the way I hoped.

Content Warnings

ariw's review against another edition

3.0

emotional reflective 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

Content Warnings

startjpw23's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

The main character in the book is Joan Goodwin. Most of the story is told by Joan in the 3rd person. The story starts in late 1984. The Space Shuttle Navigator is partway through its mission. The flight is being monitored in the Mission Control Room in Houston. Joan is the person who directly communicates with the Space Shuttle. All communication goes through her. Something goes very wrong with the Space Shuttle. The story shifts back to 1977. Joan is an astronomer teaching in a local college. NASA announces that they are going to admit women to their astronaut corps. Joan applies. There are interviews. She is accepted to the 2nd training group. The trainees will be judged for their acceptability. The story goes from there. It is partly about Joan and her fellow trainees and their path to possibly becoming astronauts. It is partly about Joan’s relationship with her sister Barbara and her niece Francis. And it is partly about Joan’s romantic relationship with another of the trainees. The story goes deep into training of astronaut candidates and astronauts. It goes deep into the science of space shuttles. The author did an impressive amount of work learning and writing the details. There are deaths. There is sexism. There is a sapphic relationship. There is homophobia. There is very poor parenting of a young child. Because of the way the book is written, you know that certain characters are going to die. You then go back and get to know and like (some of) them. There are a lot of scientific details. I loved the book. I recommend the book to anyone who wants to read what it was like for women first entering the astronaut corps. who wants to learn a lot about astronaut training and the space shuttle, about a difficult romantic relationship, and about a difficult family relationship. I loved the book. I teared up a bit at part of it.

Content Warnings

acutienamedchloe's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous emotional informative inspiring slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

This book is slow and I hated the ending, but it's so good.

Content Warnings

karly_ackley's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Content Warnings

lindseyhall44's review against another edition

4.75

medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Taylor Jenkins Reid is (and always) operating at her very best, and the contemporary book world is so very lucky to have her.
Listening to Space Oddity will forever be changed for me.

Content Warnings

dybeck's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark funny hopeful informative reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Content Warnings

More...