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JOEB

A must read...

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 18, 2018

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Very good book! Loved it...difficult to put it down...

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Jaye Horton

Five Stars

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on July 3, 2016

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Great.

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Great Novel!

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on July 20, 2018

People may be worried because this is about religion and has a conservative overtone but this was amazing. It had all the elements of the religion but still acceptance. Yes, of course there was backlash, but it was handled in such a delicate way and the main characters were so brave and scared and beautiful. And there was on-screen lesbian sex that was done really well.

I loved the relationship between Hannah and Baker and their extended friend group. I liked how they were supportive and unsupportive of one another as different things came up. The complex relationships between the friend group as a whole made this so realistic.

This felt like one of those books that should have taken place in the 90s or early 2000s, but it was actually in 2012 which was ... strange to me. It felt as though it was a historical book but it never really clicked for me that way. I felt like the references were a weird date compared to the rest of the book, but that might just be my reading of it.

However, I loved Hannah and Baker both struggling with their sexuality and their spirituality. It was nice to see a character who was very religious try to come to terms with both religion and moving forward with what is their Truth. I think there are a lot of people who feel this way as well so I think it is almost therapeutic for people to read this one.

For those who are wanting to pick this up, there is a forced outing of a character, slurs throughout the book, and violence, just as an FYI. I wasn't triggered by them but that doesn't mean you will not be.

Overall, I really liked this one! If you have the opportunity to pick it up, definitely do so. I liked seeing the characters struggle with all aspects of their identity and try to bring them together. I hope you like this as much as I did!

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Laya

I’ve never cried more reading a book

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 23, 2023

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I just had to come on here and give this book an amazing rating because it truly deserves it. This book had me sobbing for about half the book and the other half of the book I was clenching my stomach trying not to throw up. That’s how good it is. It’s a coming out story but the way this author describes and explains the main charters thoughts and feelings of religious guilt is like nothing I’ve ever read before. I will stop my rambling with this statement: if you like the song Dress by Taylor Swift this book is for you.

Anna

Hands down the best F/F book I've read! A MUST READ!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 14, 2018

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This has to be one of the most beautiful stories I've read this year. Truly, this book surprised me in all the best ways.

I've been trying desperately to read more LGBT+ books, especially F/F since it's one that is forgotten in the romance genre and is often pushed aside. And most of the F/F books I've read have been pretty good but this book...damn this book was more than "pretty good". I didn't think it was possible for me to connect to a story as much as I did this one. From the moment I started reading I felt like I was reading the intimate story of a friend, someone that I knew and loved and ever single word on the page just felt so real

The writing in this book is so freaking spectacular, it's poetic. I feel like I highlighted so many passages because of how deep and real the words these character speak are. And it's not only the serious moments, it's the friendship moments too. The moments when friends are talking abut something silly and yet in that very moment, you can tell how much of a unit the whole gang is, and you feel almost like you are a part of this senior year with them too, scared to graduate, scared of the change and yet hopeful for what is out there. I felt myself rereading so many passages, sometimes just pausing for a moment with this tingling sensation in my nose as i held back tears and just said, “damn”. It’s not often that a book makes me feel like this and I could tell from almost the very beginning that this book was going to be a favorite.

This book talks on so many serious topics and I love the way the author interwove religious beliefs into the book. Normally I'm one to stay far, far away from anything concerning religion in my books because it tends to feel like the author is trying to preach to you or push their beliefs but with this book it didn't feel that way at all. Seeing Hannah and Baker struggle with their beliefs, with what you're told your whole life versus what is your reality and now it's left you questioning everything, I feel like that's something every single person who has ever grown up religious can relate to. That moment where you start to question the things you blindly followed as a kid, where you question where you fit into it all and if you belong even if you don't believe everything or you have doubts or even you feel you go against what your beliefs say. Honestly I feel like the writing was so powerful that it made me empathize and relate to every single characters struggle, from Hannah, to Joanie and even to Wally and Clay. I loved every single character so, so much and I saw pieces of myself in nearly every single character.

I loved that this book was so character driven and about this group of friends. I love them all so much! I really cannot say that enough because throughout reading I just continued to feel more and more like they were my friends and like I knew them and I wanted so desperately to help them through all their struggles. I really loved Joanie's relationship with Luke and I love that the author spent time developing each of the side characters rather than just making them basic secondary characters that don't really have depth. I could easily see myself reading books for any of the other friends, in fact I'm dying for more of this group. I'd love a Joanie and Luke book, a Wally book or even a Clay book.

As for the main couple, Baker and Hannah? I loved them so much my heart aches just thinking of them. I really, truly did not expect to love this book as much as I did. But love it, I did. I honestly cried so much reading this book and I feel like that rarely happens for me anymore. To feel that emotionally invested in a book that I literally want to sob because it hurts me that they hurt. The love and friendship that Hannah and Baker have for each other is deep, soul mate love. The angst is too real in this one but it never felt strung out or exaggerated because the pacing was realistic and perfect.

It is very rare for me to spend $5.99 on an ebook but this book was worth every single penny and more. This was the best impulse buy and the best $6 I've spent this year. I cannot recommend this book enough! I really think this is a book that everyone should read and if you're someone who hasn't ventured into many F/F books I think you should start with this book because it's so beautiful that I don't think you could not want to read more F/F after finishing this book.

READ THIS BOOK!!

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Carolina Barra

Emocionante

Reviewed in Brazil 🇧🇷 on October 27, 2022

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A jornada de autoaceitacao foi simplesmente perfeita! Me tocou profundamente! A historia é linda, triste e feliz ao mesmo tempo!

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Kari Jewel

I loved it

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 7, 2023

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The comments were not lying, be prepared to binge read this book. It was funny and will be relatable to those who have struggled with their faith and coming to terms with themselves.

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LM

Such a terrific read

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 27, 2022

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This was such an incredible book. The emotions and angst were next level and it just floored me.

This is a coming out story set in Louisiana and deals with accepting your queerness while also being religious. It really resonated with me as I was raised in a Christian church where I was told over and over that homosexuality is a sin that would send me straight to hell. This took me right back to being a teenager in a small town and dealing with my internalized homophobia.

This is also a book about best friends realizing their feelings for one another are not purely friendly. Most of the time this isn't an angsty time, just a surprising one. Here, it was devastating for Hannah and Baker to realize their feelings and it ends up not only affecting them but their friend group. I did like the different spin, even if it was such a painful reading experience lol.

This book was written in 2014 and while a lot has changed since then, so much is still the same for a lot of small towns here in the U.S. Unfortunately, for that reason, this really doesn't feel dated.

I don't know what else to say about it. I loved it and can't imagine reading anything else right now.

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Jennifer Fitzpatrick

Stunningly Good -- Best Book I've Read in Decades

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 27, 2020

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"Her Name in the Sky" is the best love story - the best book - I've read in decades.

This is a stunningly good novel of falling in love and coming of age. The writing is beautifully lyrical and is reason enough to buy the book. "Her Name in the Sky" so much more than exquisite language.

I loved Hannah and Baker and the chance to share their lives. They share a love that we all hope to have at least once in our lives. While there are rough patches there are soaring transcendent moments of love.

Ms Quindlen draws her characters sharply and clearly, without a missed stroke. They are typical teenagers with all of their rough edges, genuineness, duplicity, love, kindness, and sometimes lack of judgment. They are also endearing and the sort of people you had as friends in high school if you were lucky.

I read the book obsessively to see how the lives of Baker, Hannah, and their friends would develop and intertwine and I read with the bittersweet knowledge that each page I read was another page closer to the inevitable end of the book. "Her Name in the Sky" moved me to tears, to enormous smiles, to outright laughter with the characters again and again. I became jealous and would not even read the story in the same room with anyone else. (I can't ever remember ever having that intense of a reaction to a book.) I didn't want to share this rich life-changing experience or have to try to explain the complexity of the story if someone asked why I was crying.

Having lived in the South and having a number of relatives and friends down there still, the descriptions of life down there were spot on. When Ms Quindlen describes a party of high school seniors and juniors, she brings it to life and gets the details right.

Some reviewers have emphasised that this is an LGBTQ+ story. Please don't pigeon-hole this as just an LGBTQ+ story. That is true but it is much much more than just that. Even if you are not interested in LGBTQ+ stories you owe it to yourself to read this because it is a wonderfully told story of a love that any of us would dearly want to have. As someone who is LGBTQ+ in a Catholic family, the descriptions of the added pressures of society and the Church on LGBTQ+ relationships ring true.

"Her Name in the Sky" is the best love story - the best book - I've read in decades.

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Claudio

A true depiction of the Catholic shame

Reviewed in Italy 🇮🇹 on June 18, 2022

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As a Catholic grown person I found so much of my teenage self in the struggle to combine the words of the gospel with the pervasive feeling of shame everything had. I really respect the people who remain to fight the system from the inside, maybe one day it won't be such a damaging religion and it will be thanks to people like you.

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