adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective 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
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
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
adventurous emotional hopeful 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: Complicated
emotional hopeful 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
adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
emotional hopeful tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
emotional hopeful tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

 this book was written for me as some kind of sick punishment for a crime I committed in a past life 
adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring tense medium-paced

I don't have words for how I feel after this book. Well I do but I don't want to get banned from goodreads. Ma'am did you have to emotionally destroy me? I put the last 100 pages off because I was scared, and wow, Taylor, you got me deep in my feels. 

I wasn't really sure what I was going to get here. Space travel isn't my favorite thing to read about, but Taylor Jenkins Reid is one of my favorite authors, so off I went. Watching Joan find herself as a woman, an astronaut, an aunt, a sister, and a friend was just amazing to see in this time period. As someone who hasn't faced these struggles, you can often forget how things were even just as recently as 10 years ago, much less 40. The insight into the struggles facing the LGBTQ+ community at that time was hard to read, so I cannot imagine how it was for those living it. 

This ending, I am going to be thinking about it forever. Also, Barbara, you can eat my dirty gym socks.