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A review by beccabookshelf
Chasing Stars by Meg Gaertner, Meg Gaertner
3.0
Chasing Stars is part of Harbor’s Hi-Lo book range, aimed at children 10+ but written at a 7+ reading level. It follows 12 year old Libby through the growing pains of significant changes in her life.
I didn’t really enjoy this book, to me it felt like there was never ending stress in Libby’s life with very little reward or respite between instances to push me to keep reading rather than feel disheartened. The clashing between her and Erica was realistic as siblings, however I would’ve liked to see a few more moments where we would get glimpses of their friendship. Libby was constantly trying to prove how adult she was as she felt like Erica was drifting away from her childhood, and I would’ve liked to have seen some moments where it paid off, such as when babysitting. There was a range of diverse characters within this book however it feels quite forced and almost tokenistic when every character’s ethnicity or sexuality is mentioned. We could have done without the two fathers being mentioned.
Cover is cute, however I don’t like the clashing art style between the hands and the background. The version I received was an eBook ARC, and I was not a fan of how it was presented. Instead of being in a standard format as a regular book, it had two pages crammed into each page and no page breaks for new chapters. This made it quite difficult to read as it was just a giant text block on every page.
AGE: 8+
GENRE: Children’s Fiction, Middle School, Family, Friendship
DETAILS: 160 Pages, Paperback
I received this as an eBook through NetGalley in return for an honest review.
I didn’t really enjoy this book, to me it felt like there was never ending stress in Libby’s life with very little reward or respite between instances to push me to keep reading rather than feel disheartened. The clashing between her and Erica was realistic as siblings, however I would’ve liked to see a few more moments where we would get glimpses of their friendship. Libby was constantly trying to prove how adult she was as she felt like Erica was drifting away from her childhood, and I would’ve liked to have seen some moments where it paid off, such as when babysitting. There was a range of diverse characters within this book however it feels quite forced and almost tokenistic when every character’s ethnicity or sexuality is mentioned. We could have done without the two fathers being mentioned.
Cover is cute, however I don’t like the clashing art style between the hands and the background. The version I received was an eBook ARC, and I was not a fan of how it was presented. Instead of being in a standard format as a regular book, it had two pages crammed into each page and no page breaks for new chapters. This made it quite difficult to read as it was just a giant text block on every page.
AGE: 8+
GENRE: Children’s Fiction, Middle School, Family, Friendship
DETAILS: 160 Pages, Paperback
I received this as an eBook through NetGalley in return for an honest review.