The Sky is Everywhere book review
4:42 AM
At first i intended to make this blog as a 'book review' blog.. but after a lot of thinking i kind of reconsidered and chose to not only reviewing book on my blog
that decision is made based on my college life which is sooo busy i barely had time to rest let alone read a fricking book which is an activity that i love so much
but today i decided to do a mini review on one of my favorite books that i've read a long time ago. hm.. maybe like a year ago?
at that time.. when my life wasn't so busy, when everything wasn't insanely tiring (TAKE ME BACK TAKE ME BACK) it usually took 2 to 4 days for me to finish a book but.. not for this one! it was just so good it got me hooked by the first page so i finished it in like one sitting.
i truly couldn't get enough! it is indeed a beautifully written book; the characters, the descriptions and the emotions. oh my god the emotions! my emotions were everywhere at once. Jandy Nelson is an utterly great author and i find it hard to believe that this is her debut novel.
the overall story is about Lennie, a girl whose sister named Bailey suddenly dies of a heart failure and how she goes through grief and loss, her friendship, and also her love life in the expedition to eventually find her self and gets through her sister's death.
Jandy's ways of describing how Lennie felt left behind, the unjustness of her broken life and the guilt and also loneliness at being the one that survived, really touched me in many ways.
there's this one example where Lennie writes on a note:
I
wish
my
shadow
would
get
up
and
walk
beside
me.
those words are heart wrenching that i wouldn't know how to describe loneliness in a better way than that.
i gave this book 4 and a half star. it's lacking by half a star to be a perfect score just because the character simply didn't feel utterly real to me in the end just because i don't think teenagers could talk and think like Lennie and her friends did. but it's not that big of a problem just because a fiction book doesn't have to be logically real.
but still, a highly recommended book!
written by Ardelia Meizana Zakirah
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