A review by waxbiplane
The Language of Stars by Louise Hawes

4.0

Probably a 3.5. It started out a little slow but grew in the telling. Sarah was a good, fickle, teen protagonist. Rufus Baylor was a great wish fulfillment grandpa and poetry mentor. H snuck up on us as we read to be a great character. It feels like the author sensed that too, as H became more prevalent throughout the course of the narrative, even as Fry shrank from a never-very-developed character to almost absent (narratively appropriately) entirely in the last third or so. A good conversation or term paper could probably be written about whether the author purposely built Fry as a paper-thin character to reflect Sarah's feelings toward him or he was simply poorly drawn and an unfortunate miss in the book. The rest of the book managed fine without him, so that's something.