abbyandthejets 's review for:

The Sky Is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson

4.5

adventurous emotional funny 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

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I love Jandy Nelson. Her characters live in these crazy unique poetic situations that are both relatable and impossible. The main character carves poems into trees and her grandma paints the house full of green women. A perfect boy plays a thousand different instruments. Everything is so hyper real. What I love most is how Nelson approaches forgiveness and self-forgiveness. Her characters mess up in major ways because they’re hurt. But they heal and they learn and they forgive and they are forgiven. I adored this novel and will probably read it again. Very romantic, too.