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tbh idk what happened, I've been distracted roaming my fav city in this colony
first time being there since the genocide and I'm glad I still love it. I really need to fucking move.
I mostly listened to this on the drive while contemplating my life.

While I don't actually understand the ending, Henry writes characters well so I enjoyed disassociating with this book

sarakday's review against another edition

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adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

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

2.5

megobrien81's review against another edition

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challenging mysterious tense slow-paced

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

1.75

This simply wasn’t my cup of tea. My least favorite Emily Henry book. I don’t read a lot of Sci-Fi so that may be part of why I felt this wasn’t very captivating. I think it could have been much shorter. Parts of this story just dragged. There’s only so many times I want a full description of someone running through a field.

brandidean's review against another edition

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3.0

This one didn’t work as well for me as A Million Junes. Some — possibly a lot — of it could have been the reader on the audiobook. The voices were pretty bad and didn’t help me like the characters. I can’t tell how much of a difference it would have made to have a different reader.

mylibrarybooks's review against another edition

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4.0

The idea of this book is super interesting, and I keep thinking about it every now and then. I love the premise and the setting was perfect for the story. At first the pacing was making me a little frustrated and nervous that there wouldn’t be enough time for the climax, but the more I thought about it, the more perfect the pacing actually became. I do wish there had been a little bit more of all of them together and a bit more of their other adventures, but it was definitely an interesting read.

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3.0

This was a 3-star for me most of way through, but then I liked how everything came together so much that I almost bumped to 4. Almost!

Emily Henry always has lovely writing, but I think I would’ve enjoyed this more in maybe 3rd person or multiple povs. Franny’s narration annoyed me at just a few points - however, the audiobook definitely could’ve contributed here. In general, I would’ve enjoyed hearing more directly from the other characters and seeing them develop a bit more as well.

It also leaned into one of my personal storytelling pet peeves which is when a character holds back important information from others. I think that the withholding went on slightly too long and maybe diminished the strength of the friend group a tiny bit for me. I might’ve looked fully past this if the fallout from it had been resolved a bit more solidly or if there had been more focus on growth after it.

I agree with some of the other reviewers that the story tried to be a lot of things at once and got resolved a little too late, but overall it was still enjoyable and included great emotional beats. I’ll read absolutely anything Emily Henry writes and will definitely be picking up her other older novels as well!

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