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A review by myevergrowingbookshelf
And the Stars Were Burning Brightly by Danielle Jawando
5.0
Have you ever read a book that you could talk about for hours, but at the same time you don’t know how to put your thoughts on it into words? That’s how I feel with And The Stars Were Burning Brightly.
I honestly feel that everyone needs to read this book, especially young people. And The Stars Were Burning Brightly is on The Jhalak Prize shortlist and it is so clear why. This book addresses so many issues that can affect so many, grief, bullying, mental health, suicide and what it’s like growing up around social media. This book belongs in secondary schools. It shows the reader the importance of social media awareness, that just because you said it online, doesn’t meant that there aren’t real consequences to that. There were parts of this story where I genuinely couldn’t believe that kids would do or say something like that, but it’s true, some people out there can be that cruel.
The chapters alternate between Nathan and Megan’s perspective which was great , but what I really loved was they at the beginning of each chapter was a little bit from Al himself, which was heartbreaking, reading his thoughts knowing what was going to happen to him.
Ooh also, there was a character in this with my name which made me a little excited because you never see the name Tara in books, but then I really didn’t like Tara in this, she was not a nice person!
I honestly feel that everyone needs to read this book, especially young people. And The Stars Were Burning Brightly is on The Jhalak Prize shortlist and it is so clear why. This book addresses so many issues that can affect so many, grief, bullying, mental health, suicide and what it’s like growing up around social media. This book belongs in secondary schools. It shows the reader the importance of social media awareness, that just because you said it online, doesn’t meant that there aren’t real consequences to that. There were parts of this story where I genuinely couldn’t believe that kids would do or say something like that, but it’s true, some people out there can be that cruel.
The chapters alternate between Nathan and Megan’s perspective which was great , but what I really loved was they at the beginning of each chapter was a little bit from Al himself, which was heartbreaking, reading his thoughts knowing what was going to happen to him.
Ooh also, there was a character in this with my name which made me a little excited because you never see the name Tara in books, but then I really didn’t like Tara in this, she was not a nice person!