A review by junosdaughter
Interesting Facts About Space by Emily Austin

emotional funny reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

Thank you netgalley for providing me an ARC for my most anticipated read this year! “everyone in this room will someday be dead” altered my worldview dramatically. The line “Now, do you ever think about how some people might wish that for you?” completely winded me in the moment and it’s sat in the back of my head for the two years since I first read it. Reading Emily Austin novels feels like a fourth wall break. it literally feels like someone, every other chapter, pulls the covers from above my head and shines a flashlight directly on my face in the night. 

I have two half-siblings and a mom I feel guilty talking about them with. I hope I never see people again after a good time. I was lonely a lot as a kid. I avoid relationships because I believe I’m not made for them. I’ve always done things because I thought I was supposed to. Enid is one of, if not the most, personally identifiable character I’ve ever read and I don’t know how to thank Emily Austin for writing her. I can’t even put to words the things I didn’t love about this book because the good is so good. Reading this was a form of therapy and I wish I could have it in my hands right now to highlight and cry into. 

Emily, I’m begging. Please do a reading or a signing or some kind of event here in Ottawa. If there’s one person in the audience, it’ll be me. My head is spinning.