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The Year We Fell From Space by Amy Sarig King

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adelita18's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

This book follows a family as the parents go through divorce. It dives deep into marital infidelity, parental and child depression, bullying, and therapy. While Ms. Sarig King does a beautiful job of de-stigmatizing mental health issues around divorce and provides resources at the end of the book, this is a very tough read. Our family lived through a terrible bullying experience with my son at his former school and this book dredged up a lot of those memories and issues. If you have been through similar incidents as covered in this book, read with care.

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5.0

A.S. King never disappoints me. This is pretty much the perfect middle grade novel. The main character was an amazing person, and I enjoyed reading about her immensely.

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4.0

The Year We Fell From Space is a well-written, moving middle grade novel about divorce and mental health. Specifically, this is the story of children stuck in the middle of their parents' divorce and how they are affecting by this separation.

Liberty's character is realistic and genuine yet quite infuriating, at times. But it's understandable as she is experiencing a bad thing, which is the divorce of her parents.

She's acting irrational as a way to cope and process all of these things and it's apparent when you read the book, how she is hurt, confused and trying her best to understand what she needs to understand. It's contagious.

It's a pity what Lib is experiencing but it is also commendable how she is overcoming herself to be matured enough to discern the things along the way to acceptance.

The Year We Fell From Space is a great book. And it becomes greater because of the magical realism infused to this book, which is interesting and amplify the importance of why this book was written.