3.45k reviews for:

Wandering Stars

Tommy Orange

4.02 AVERAGE

bergamee's review against another edition

3.75

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense 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

mlitz82's review against another edition

3.75

challenging emotional sad 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: Yes

nati314's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

jennajean's review against another edition

4.25

challenging dark emotional 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

leahwood086's review against another edition

3.5

challenging dark emotional sad 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: Yes

thalfpenny's review against another edition

5.0

emotional hopeful informative inspiring 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: Yes

eminthegarden's review against another edition

3.75

challenging emotional hopeful reflective 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: Yes

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A moving story about addiction, generational trauma, and finding a place in the world. 

smphillips's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous dark sad medium-paced

ewoodhello's review against another edition

4.0

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3.5 rounding up

anarchalmcdonalds's review against another edition

4.25

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yayyy more tommy orange! will be sitting and digesting this for longer but my immediate thoughts: really liked the first section but i wish there was more time w those characters.  very cool and strange to understand so many oakland details. also the highlighting of how california natives are overlooked was good to see. curious how much of that was because of the criticisms from there there…