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3.86 AVERAGE
3.86 AVERAGE
This book was beautifully written and is all about coping with the death of a sister. It will leave your heart aching and your mind captivated long after you turn the last page...
I am WRECKED after reading this. But I want to read it all over again.
This is a gorgeously told story about grief, and love, and trying to be a teenaged girl through it all. Jandy Nelson's words are beauty on a page. She has the ability to make me shatter with one sentence, then lift me up with the next. Anyone who has dealt with losing someone close, and the confusion and pain that comes with it, will be able to relate. As will anyone who's had to traverse the crazy trials of first love and teenagehood.
Beautiful read.
This is a gorgeously told story about grief, and love, and trying to be a teenaged girl through it all. Jandy Nelson's words are beauty on a page. She has the ability to make me shatter with one sentence, then lift me up with the next. Anyone who has dealt with losing someone close, and the confusion and pain that comes with it, will be able to relate. As will anyone who's had to traverse the crazy trials of first love and teenagehood.
Beautiful read.
Jandy Nelson is my all-time favourite author; I’ve had a copy of The Sky Is Everywhere since I was 14 and have reread it more times than Lennie has read Wuthering Heights. Every time I reread this book, I fall in love with crazily talented, French wine drinking guitarists, the ghosts of dead Juliets, pot smoking romantics who have been married five times and mostly, little heartbroken Lennie. I forgive Lennie for all the mistakes she makes each time, because grief sucks and my heart bleeds for this poor little companion pony. I love her despite her flaws and errors, and I wish I could spend a day in their world – if I could, I’d be stealing roses.
It is impossible to review a book I love so much, that if I was forced to pick one to read over and over again, it would be this one. I am too biased; this novel is one of my greatest comforts. I’m always surprised that this was Nelson’s first novel, her prose is absolutely phenomenal. The characters are well developed and feel so real, I love the metaphorical language used throughout, the setting is so dreamy, and I just adore her descriptions of grief.
One of the standout features of this novel is Nelson’s use of poetry thought out, these pages make the novel feel real. We find Lennie’s sad stories littered around the book, similar to her leaving them scratched into trees and on paper cups around her home. They provide insight into her and Bailey’s relationship, to previous conversations and life before this family’s lives were destroyed by loss. These inserts are so cleverly included, and I love the blurring lines of form.
Five stars every time, to all Nelson’s novels.
It is impossible to review a book I love so much, that if I was forced to pick one to read over and over again, it would be this one. I am too biased; this novel is one of my greatest comforts. I’m always surprised that this was Nelson’s first novel, her prose is absolutely phenomenal. The characters are well developed and feel so real, I love the metaphorical language used throughout, the setting is so dreamy, and I just adore her descriptions of grief.
One of the standout features of this novel is Nelson’s use of poetry thought out, these pages make the novel feel real. We find Lennie’s sad stories littered around the book, similar to her leaving them scratched into trees and on paper cups around her home. They provide insight into her and Bailey’s relationship, to previous conversations and life before this family’s lives were destroyed by loss. These inserts are so cleverly included, and I love the blurring lines of form.
Five stars every time, to all Nelson’s novels.
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
funny
sad
fast-paced
ℝ𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕤:★★★.5
ℝ𝕖𝕧𝕚𝕖𝕨:
This book was so sad but so good, lennie grief ridden since her sister's death finds out things along the way and ends up in a slight love triangle with Joe the guitarist who just wants to make Lennie feel like so much more and then there's toby the dead sisters boyfriend grief ridden too
ℝ𝕖𝕧𝕚𝕖𝕨:
This book was so sad but so good, lennie grief ridden since her sister's death finds out things along the way and ends up in a slight love triangle with Joe the guitarist who just wants to make Lennie feel like so much more and then there's toby the dead sisters boyfriend grief ridden too
This is definitely not a plot-driven story, it is more a quiet character study about how grief effects people and the actions they do in the face of grief. I really liked this book; I saw a lot of myself in Lennie’s character which I thought was comforting. I will say that I thought the ending was a tad unrealistic, but nonetheless, I enjoyed the story a lot.
☞ 4.5 stars
☞ 4.5 stars
emotional
reflective
sad
fast-paced
emotional
fast-paced
In my mid-50s, I am a huge fan of YA. I started reading it when my kids were in middle/high school and have never stopped. This is one of the most page-turning stories ever. Jandy Nelson has a way with words that made me smile and laugh and sigh and cry. She invents language. Creates characters that are intensely alive and human: both lovable but flawed. From page one, you want to know them and inhabit their world. You feel their pain: Lennie, abandoned after her older charismatic sister died suddenly; Gram, carrying the loss of her granddaughter on her shoulders; Big, the hippie uncle who adores women and dead bugs. Overwhelmed with grief, Lennie makes one mistake after another as she wakes up to a world without her only sibling to guide her and finally sees what everyone else already knows: she, too, is bold and vivacious and curious and lovable.