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Atmosphere

Taylor Jenkins Reid

4.54 AVERAGE


i’m never opening a book again. 
emotional slow-paced
adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad tense fast-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: No

Wow. Taylor Jenkins Reid does it again! This book was a treat to listen to, and the narrators were amazing!
emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-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: No

2.5
adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-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: Complicated
adventurous inspiring medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes

It’s the early 1980’s and NASA is including some women in their training program.  Joan gets a spot and we follow her finding her own self while in the program.  I really enjoyed the characters and her development, there was sacrifice and love.  It’s also nice to reflect on how far we have come in society since the 80’s, while also seeing how far we still have to go. This book had it all and even thought I am not a space nerd, I was able to follow along well.  Really 4.5 stars only because I had trouble following at the beginning setup and characters, but a well developed story!
adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring tense slow-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

The audiobook was ♾️⭐

For like 10% of it I was gently weeping and then the last few chapters made me absolutely sob. This book had my heart swelling and breaking over and over. 

Joan's relationship to Frances was central to the story but I do wonder why her and Barb's parents were
so hands off
? I guess if Barb kept up
the facade with them they wouldn't question her going to boarding school but they didn't want to step in when Thanksgiving was cancelled


This book was also the best use of dual POV I've ever read, and the switches between past and present kept me listening.
emotional hopeful 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: No
adventurous emotional inspiring 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