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A review by milesofpages
Astrid Sees All by Natalie Standiford
3.0
New York isn’t going anywhere, she said. She was mistaken: New York is always charging forward and threatening to leave you behind. It is going somewhere, always.
Astrid Sees All is a coming of age story that shows that being “it” in NYC is harder than it seems. Phoebe tells fortunes in the elusive Plutonium Club as Astrid. She tells them through picking out movie stubs. While being Astrid, she lives with her best, Carmen, a born city girl. She also just lost her father and basically ran away from her mom to come back to NYC.
This book is so atmospheric. I was sucked into NYC in the 80s, and trying to fit in where edgy it cool, and where one minute something is in, the next it’s out. Where drugs and clubbing are a norm and missing Amelias (missing girls) are more common than not. It’s gritty, it’s raw, but it’s very dark and sad. This was one where I wanted to hug the MC and whisper it’s okay.
Overall, it took me a minute to get into the book. Once I got into the thick of it, I understood the characters and enjoyed the journey.
Thank you Atria for the gifted copy! Astrid Sees All is out April 6th!
TW: abortion, drug use, overdose, People who work the door at Plutonium are called by others, “Door Nazis”. For NYE, one dresses up in a German SS costume for the party.
Astrid Sees All is a coming of age story that shows that being “it” in NYC is harder than it seems. Phoebe tells fortunes in the elusive Plutonium Club as Astrid. She tells them through picking out movie stubs. While being Astrid, she lives with her best, Carmen, a born city girl. She also just lost her father and basically ran away from her mom to come back to NYC.
This book is so atmospheric. I was sucked into NYC in the 80s, and trying to fit in where edgy it cool, and where one minute something is in, the next it’s out. Where drugs and clubbing are a norm and missing Amelias (missing girls) are more common than not. It’s gritty, it’s raw, but it’s very dark and sad. This was one where I wanted to hug the MC and whisper it’s okay.
Overall, it took me a minute to get into the book. Once I got into the thick of it, I understood the characters and enjoyed the journey.
Thank you Atria for the gifted copy! Astrid Sees All is out April 6th!
TW: abortion, drug use, overdose, People who work the door at Plutonium are called by others, “Door Nazis”. For NYE, one dresses up in a German SS costume for the party.