A review by emmabeckman
The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue

5.0

Okay, I personally loved this one but I can definitely see how it would be A LOT for some people. I think if you liked EVERYTHING about the show Call the Midwife, you would like this one a lot too, as they are quite similar. I actually really enjoyed reading this pandemic tale during the pandemic, as I liked the exploration of life continuing as normal even when life can never go BACK to normal. I concede that this book does fall into one major LGBTQ+-related bad trope, but I think it works for the setting, as well as toward the idea that Julia can perhaps be more fulfilled in her life as it goes on even though her revelation was marred. But I can still see how that trope would really irk people. My only other "problem" was that I don't love having existential crises while reading books, because I spiral into anxiety scrolling on Instagram which is such a waste of time and I had to do it twice with this book, but that's more of a personal problem than an actual problem with this book.