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A review by moonaslan
The Sky Is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson
4.0
at first, i couldn’t shake off the feeling of weirdness coming from lennie’s relationships with both toby and joe. even the catchphrase on the cover, « i’m supposed to be grieving, not falling in love », didn’t seem right to me. i mean, thankfully, i’ve never experienced a loss as traumatic as hers, but i couldn’t really understand why she did the things she did with toby. i think i would’ve much better appreciated the book if it had only been about joe.
i disliked the fact that the romance was so quick to happen ... i’m a sucker for slow burn, what can i say?
i read i’ll give you the sun before the sky is everywhere and i was glad to find the same writing that i had loved so much in igyts. jandy nelson has a way of describing emotions and settings and characters that make me long to be in the story with them and to feel the same overflowing love they feel.
sure, her characters are flawed, they don’t make the best choices, but isn’t it what’s best about them? I don’t know about you, but i’m tired of book girls and book boys being perfect and doing the right thing at the right time. I prefer reading stories about people being like me, so i can relate to them.
I wish I knew Joe and Gram in real life. The characterisation is just so on point !! they have passions and expressions that make them so real and i almost expected them to enter my house to bring me croissants and paint beautiful green women on my walls. Joe, like Brian and Oscar, is the kind of guy i would fall in love with, because they’re all so luminous.
I can understand why so much people disliked this novel, because at first i was disturbed by lennie’s action taking place after losing her sister. and sure, it can seem a bit cliché. but coming from a girl who hates romance and cliches, this book is worth a try.
i disliked the fact that the romance was so quick to happen ... i’m a sucker for slow burn, what can i say?
i read i’ll give you the sun before the sky is everywhere and i was glad to find the same writing that i had loved so much in igyts. jandy nelson has a way of describing emotions and settings and characters that make me long to be in the story with them and to feel the same overflowing love they feel.
sure, her characters are flawed, they don’t make the best choices, but isn’t it what’s best about them? I don’t know about you, but i’m tired of book girls and book boys being perfect and doing the right thing at the right time. I prefer reading stories about people being like me, so i can relate to them.
I wish I knew Joe and Gram in real life. The characterisation is just so on point !! they have passions and expressions that make them so real and i almost expected them to enter my house to bring me croissants and paint beautiful green women on my walls. Joe, like Brian and Oscar, is the kind of guy i would fall in love with, because they’re all so luminous.
I can understand why so much people disliked this novel, because at first i was disturbed by lennie’s action taking place after losing her sister. and sure, it can seem a bit cliché. but coming from a girl who hates romance and cliches, this book is worth a try.