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A review by mweis
How We Named the Stars by Andrés N. Ordorica
4.0
*I received an eARC via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.*
Clearly 2024 is my year of sad gay lit because I really liked this and it broke my heart. Written in the form of letters to a lost love, Daniel recounts their relationship from beginning to end to work through his grief. I loved the narrative framework and the prose was a perfect mix of touching but a little awkward in the way that I think really suited a coming of age story. There are moments that are so poignant and then there are moments that are like yes I would fully believe a grieving 19 year old boy would say that.
I think part of what made me enjoy this book so much was that I could see aspects of my own history in what he was experiencing and it made me really sit with how universal grief is and how healing isn't nonlinear. Andrés Ordorica is definitely a voice I will be keeping an eye on after this debut.
Clearly 2024 is my year of sad gay lit because I really liked this and it broke my heart. Written in the form of letters to a lost love, Daniel recounts their relationship from beginning to end to work through his grief. I loved the narrative framework and the prose was a perfect mix of touching but a little awkward in the way that I think really suited a coming of age story. There are moments that are so poignant and then there are moments that are like yes I would fully believe a grieving 19 year old boy would say that.
I think part of what made me enjoy this book so much was that I could see aspects of my own history in what he was experiencing and it made me really sit with how universal grief is and how healing isn't nonlinear. Andrés Ordorica is definitely a voice I will be keeping an eye on after this debut.