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I love Emily Henry.Typically, I have reservations about making love-based declarations about people I don’t know on the internet. Seems a lil weird. Like, how would Rami Malek feel if he knew I was writing sonnets about how he manages to be devastatingly attractive even with weird fake teeth? How would Bill Hader feel if he knew about how many clips of his interviews I’ve watched in a row on YouTube?Both of those are, of course, completely made up examples.In the case of Emily Henry, though, I’m...
Less than 3 stars but not quite 2.5. I don't know why we didn't click. It sounds like my kind of thing, and yet it fell so flat. I don't remember the last time I skimmed so much. I could barely connect with something. And it's a shame, because the book isn't bad - the plot, the characters... based on what I like I should have loved this one too. Maybe it's just my mood, but reading the reviews I see that I'm not the only one. Nonetheless, I think you should give it a try. It might work for you.
This was such an amazing story about friendship and family and what happens after the worst possible thing happens. I loved this book so, so much. It's like the Super 8 / Stranger Things -- but make it more magic -- book of my dreams.
This starts out with a Super 8/Stranger Things vibe, but it's really not that kind of story. It isn't creepy SF; it's a story about friendships and families and loss, with an otherworldly element acting as a catalyst for these tangled relationships.I didn't like this quite as much as I liked A Million Junes, but it did share some of the emotional elements I loved in that book. My main issue was that I did feel like I was supposed to think this was one kind of story when it was actually another.
When the Sky Fell on Splendor features main character Franny, along with her brother Arthur and several other friends. The teens enjoy filming ghost hunter videos for fun and escape from their disappointing home lives. The six friends were initially drawn together in their grief after a steel mill explosion five years earlier had stolen the lives of some of their family members.While filming videos late one evening, Franny and her friends witness what appears to be a real supernatural event, a U...
I’m always here for anything Emily writes and after that comparison to Stranger Things, I was excited. I really liked Franny and her group of ordinaries. Their dynamic and loyalty are fantastic. I’m a huge fan of friendships that are really found families and this one is done to perfection. I will admit to not being able to keep them all straight at first, but it was easy to settle in {especially because modifiers like Nick’s tattooed hands and Levi’s bright hats were always being used.}Plot wis...
2/5 stars I resorted to skim reading the final 100 pages, as I had a lot of trouble staying invested or interested in finishing this book by then. I was hoping for a fun YA adventure story with a bit of a dark undertone ala Dark or Stranger Things, but what I got was a disjointed story that soon became a slog to get through.A slow set up, unmemorable characters and an unsatisfying pay off, that felt very rushed in the final 50 pages to add insult to injury. I’m not going so far as giving it 1 st...
No matter how hard I kept trying to shake this thought, I kept thinking that this book seemed like an interesting melding of both the X-Files and Super 8. Considering I enjoyed both of these, I can say that the comparison didn't take anything away from this book. All the teens in this story have had their lives touched horribly by an accident at the local steel mill. Franny and her brother Arthur, Remy, Sofia, Levi and Nick, hang out together, and all have a variety of coping mechanisms to help
I really, really loved the characters and the setting of this one, but the plot just did not do it for me :( I am hecka bummed.
When the Sky Fell on Splendor is a tough story for me to review. A genre-mashup of things I love, but together seemed disjointed. Still good, just odd.A few years back, the town of Splendor was the site of a terrible industrial accident; an explosion that killed many people. The plant where the accident occurred employed about half the town, so it seems every family was in some way impacted.As you can imagine, for a small town, this had horrible ramifications. People had brothers, sisters, fathe...
Not sure I liked this one but it also made me cry for a minute near the end? Could've been life stuff, or even PMS, that helped to make that happen but also I do just cry super easy. Didn't mean I liked it. But I didn't hate it.This is why I don't review a day later. I got nothing.
The second star is for the dog
