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Atmosphere

Taylor Jenkins Reid

4.54 AVERAGE

johnleonard44's review against another edition

4.75

emotional informative fast-paced

astoms's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful informative medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

looneyleash's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous emotional 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

mroseq's review against another edition

"I have never had to bury or deny any parts of myself in order to make sense to you. What a gift it is, to be loved like that."

tammyhai's review against another edition

5.0

emotional hopeful inspiring sad 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: No

Hands down, this is my FAVORITE read of the year.

This book has everything--highly researched space trivia to keep the nerd within me geeked out, a love story that fully satisfied the romantic in me, societal injustices that ignited my inner social warrior--my emotions were all over the place in the best way.

Taylor Jenkins Reid only gets better and better. This is probably her best piece of writing ever. She sets us up so masterfully, manipulating our emotions so easily with characters who feel (with emphasis) so real.

Joan's character arc is beautifully written. Reid alternates back and forth between the tragedy and Joan's formative years leading up to it, allowing us readers to watch Joan grow into the strong, capable, and resilient person--someone who can handle such a crisis. Reid also makes it easy for us to fall in love with all the characters orbiting Joan: Vanessa, Frances, Griff, Donna, Hank, etc. Every single person felt so real, so every single page returning to the disaster felt like a gut punch.

My only criticism is that the book made me cry so hard, my face is still recovering from it. Puffy eyes, blotchy skin... It was not a pretty sight.

Even better, I discovered that a movie adaptation is underway by one of my favorite production companies (Laika, I'm very biased being an Oregonian) and I absolutely cannot way to see this all played out on the big screen. I'll be the woman sobbing uncontrollably in the back of the theater.