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Her Name in the Sky by Kelly Quindlen

khrysha's review

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4.75

cried more than i did in all of 2023

jadareads's review

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emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

slushysands's review

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emotional hopeful medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes

4.75

shan_doe's review against another edition

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challenging emotional sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

mquater's review

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emotional hopeful sad medium-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? No

3.75

giosscottino's review

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emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense 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? It's complicated

5.0

hosuday's review

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3.0

(I asked for a recommendation in the end, I'd love if someone read it, no need to read this whole ass paragraph, just the last lines)

3/5 I liked it, I bit too long for what the story needed. Hated the the dialogue on cap.
Hannah shouldn't have forgiven Barker so easily. Barker was a bitch along side Marlene.
A lot of emotions.
Wally deserved better

Honestly , this book made my cry like a baby. I think I never cried this much reading a book.
I was so hook up that I finished in one day.
I loved the group dynamic.
I even rooted for Wally and Hannah, after everything Baker did to Hannah I felt like she did not deserve her back, no matter how scared she was, there's no justify for her actions.
I felt towards the end it was like a fanfic, when all the stuff in the last party when down but then I remembered reading so many real cases of attack towards gay folks just for the sake of being gay.

I thought the book was going to end with baker and Hannah in the hospital and I'm glad it didn't.
I was really happy that hannah went and talked to all her friends about it and how everyone of them reacted. Just wished she had told Wally that she did like him and she didn't send the mail.

I'm not catholic and I don't know much of the bible of all those things but i relate to something hannah did. I'm gay and I have often struggling with the why am I like this, I have cried myself to sleep wishing for it to just go away. I have even asked "God" for help (I put it the "" bc I'm not really sure what I mean with God)

You know at some point in the story I thought Hannah was going to hurt herself but it ended begin Baker.
I was happy with the end and how things got resolved (for what I could tell, Marlene was expelled right?)
However I still wanted Wally to be with Hannah. I read the book because it was a sapphic story but ended up rooting for the straight couple lmfaoooo

Can someone recommend me book with character like Wally? Doesn't matter if it lgtbq or straight, I just want more of Wally

isabellaianni's review

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4.0

rlly good but i hated baker a lot of the time; a lot more tragic than i thought

reo_hi's review

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2.0

The story didn't do justice to what the main character had to go through. Baker, and most of her friends for that matter, treated Hannah horribly yet everything got quickly resolved. Hannah apologized to and forgave people who wronged her way too easily. The ending felt unearned.

Also it was strange how almost every scene was them at a party. I get that they're high school seniors but it felt forced to have them constantly going to parties as a way to have character interaction.

little_bean's review

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dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-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

4.5