But this book was full of those moments for me. Kit Frick has a great way with words and I really enjoy her writing style. This is a huge compliment coming from me because I rag on writing alllllllll the time. But the writing of a book is so important. I don't think it matters how planned out and intricate your plot is if your writing is all over the place.
It can make or break a story. And Kit Frick really gets that. I think the the way she sequenced the book really worked in her favor. In all honesty, I'm not sure that the story line would've been interesting enough to me to stay hooked until the end had it been in chronological order. I love YA books but really do not enjoy reading about teenage drama. I'm a contradiction, I know. Truth be told, I really kinda just kept reading to see why Ellory was so friendless senior year, and once I knew, I was pretty much over it.
The last few pages dragged for me, because I'm not a huge sucker for all things happy ending. It wasn't a bad read, honest. It just wasn't super captivating for me. I love a good YA and I love books that really get into your mind but this book didn't really make me think much. So, now that we've gotten that out of the way Do not keep reading if you don't want to know what happens!!!! The back and forth way that this book is written makes it clear to the reader from the very beginning that there has been some big blow out between the four girls, and though it doesn't say anything about Matthius having anything to do with it, I just saw it coming.
But I did not see Ret being dead coming. Frick did a really good job building up to this and I'm impressed with her ability to surprise me because it doesn't happen often. But here's the thing. Once I saw this plot line rearing its ugly head around the corner, I literally rolled my eyes. I don't really know why, but I am growing a serious distaste to these types of stories. I think it might have to do with the fact that its the same recycled, tired plot in every book: The main character feels immense guilt. Main character imagines that the deceased is still alive and readers are tricked into believing the same.
Main character has some break through and realizes that the deceased is, in fact, deceased. Readers are let in on the secret. I'm overrrrrrrrr it yall. Props to Frick for keeping me from guessing that this book was headed in that direction, but I really wish it didn't have to end this way. As far as characters go, I wasn't super obsessed or connected with anyone, even Ellory, but I didn't feel too far from her either. I was in highschool not too long ago and I know how cruel girls who are your "friends" can be. I know how quickly your best friend becomes your enemy.
And I'm sad to admit that, but it's the truth. It's familiar, and I understood. I wasn't mad at Ellory when she kept coming back to toxic friendships because she didn't know how to let go. It was a nice read, and I enjoyed it well enough. I think that a book like this would be easier to connect to for a younger reader still in high school, or even middle school, but it's certainly good for all YA enthusiasts.
Feb 15, Bianca St. This book was extremely captivating from the very first chapter. The switching perspectives from 'NOW' to 'THEN' keep the mystery and intrigue alive throughout the whole novel and they keep you reading so you find out what the massive event that caused such a change in these characters' lives is. And the plot-twist at the end will leave you speechless!
The story is centred around Ellory and her girl squad: Ret, the leader; Jenni, the wannabe, and Bex, the mediator; and the dynamic between them that gets more and more strained until it eventually leads to 'The Fall'. It reminded me a lot of Pretty Little Liars, 13 Reasons Why and Before I Fall so if you're a fan of any of those I recommend picking this up but it's definitely it's own unique story and not a repeat of those. The action is not at all predictable and it keeps you guessing with twists and turns and characters who only ever reveal half the information.
The characters are all complex and flawed and they lie and deceive and judge and make the wrong choices for the right reasons. This book will keep you hooked from the very beginning! A slower approach would have been better imo. However, these two aspects while I wish they were better, did not take that much away from the novel and I still enjoyed it greatly.
Overall, a wonderful debut novel! I hope to see more from Kit Frick in the future, hopefully with a bit more diversity and representation, but as far as storytelling goes, she is doing an amazing job! I would recommend picking this up! And they were complex. Our first loves felt like the center of our universes, and they were. This wonderfully written book perfectly depicts this period in all our lives, but then adds a profound layer of deception, betrayal, and tragedy.
Things that could easily have happened to us all. After all, the ingredients were there. Heightened feelings, hormones, sex, drugs and alcohol… It just depends on how they were mixed. I really enjoyed this book, The writing was excellent, the characters are flawed and deeply layered, and it felt very real. Then there was the twist! The ending of the story was completely unexpected! It tied everything together beautifully and it was done so well, it made me elevate my 4 star rating to 5 stars! Kudos to the author for masterfully writing a truly evocative and realistic story.
This is a MUST read! I am sure that a lot of people that will read this book will love it. The writing is good, the characters are okay, the plotting and structure of this book are good -even if some sec I am sure that a lot of people that will read this book will love it. The writing is good, the characters are okay, the plotting and structure of this book are good -even if some sections feel very dragged out in my option and could have been cut short- and the big "Plot twist" of what happened was very predictable and nothing new but at the same time not done bad just not done fantastically well.
So all in all its a good book. But i just felt like there was the little something special missing in this book that would make this book stand out to me personally and i just know that in a few weeks i will have no idea anymore about the details in the book since it just felt like the very generic "friendship gone bad" type of book to me. I am however interested to see what else this author will be doing, so we'll see what the future brings, and we will see if the next book by this author might be a better fit for me personally!
Aug 13, Kaila rated it really liked it Shelves: A powerful coming-of-age tale, this young adult contemporary manages to be unexpectedly fun despite being laced with dark themes, and I couldn't be more pleased to be sharing my thoughts with you today as part of the blog tour leading up to its release. Told in a dual timeline "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and I—" "I took the one back to you.
All of the characters are intriguingly flawed, and it's riveting to watch their personalities clash against one another. Ellory is constantly pulled back into Ret's orbit, even when she acknowledges just how manipulative the other girl is being. And Ellory herself isn't entirely innocent. She's a gem of a protagonist, and she isn't above getting her hands dirty with lies of her own if she can convince herself they're for the better.
I'm still baffled that this is Frick's debut novel; it's hard to tell from her gorgeous writing style. The prose is almost lyrical, and it's wonderfully evocative in both the past and present threads. I also loved the motif of the opening lines of the famed Robert Frost poem, which starts as an inside joke between Ellory and Ret and yet comes to symbolize all of the choices and roads not taken by the end of the novel.
The twist at the ending is two-pronged and executed well, and I thought it made for a very fitting conclusion to Ellory's story. I will say that I felt the parts leading up to it were rather predictable and fell somewhat flat, but that didn't take away from the impact of the overall reveal and how impressed I am that Frick was able to pull it off seamlessly. I had a blast with Kit Frick's debut novel, which is rich with lyrical prose, engaging themes, and vivid characters. Soon Ret's world was my world, her friends my firneds. It was like it had always been that way.
Everything Ret touched felt electric, a little bit dangerous. Before Ret, I was basically invisible. Jul 27, Lauren Stoolfire rated it liked it Shelves: NOW - Ellory is alone, her once inseparable group of friends torn apart by secrets, deception, and a shocking incident that changed their lives forever. Ellory returns to Pine Brook to navigate senior year after a two-month suspension and summer away—no boyfriend, no friends. I've seen so many glowing reviews for it and it's compared to We Were Liars by E.
I mean, it isn't a bad read or anything - I was just never hooked like I was with the two stories it has been compared to. First, I'll talk about my favorite aspect of the novel which is the fact that it isn't told chronologically. The timeline is broken up, jumping back and forth between then and now asking the reader to put together the clues and try to figure out what happened between this group of friends. For this sort of story that aspect works really well, especially as things really begin to pull together the drama and the tension begins to ratchet up in decent increments that make you want to compulsively read through the story.
Even if it isn't all that difficult to make an educated guess as to the truth. Now for the aspects I didn't really care for, the story kind of drags - I didn't feel like I had to hang on to every word as I was turning the pages to learn the story behind the incident and the aftermath - and I wasn't invested in the characters enough to really care one way or the other before of afterward. I know the characters are supposed to come off as edgy or something, but I mostly came away with pretentious - looking back on the story I'm not sure why the reveal was such a surprise, especially to the characters who lived the story.
One of the things that also bothers me in YA are absent or mostly absent parents - and that's what we get here - seriously, to the parents in YA just watch your kids, or have more than a minor passing role in their life. It wasn't quite as what I was hoping for but it is still engrossing and suspenseful.
Though intended for the young adult reader See All the Stars will be enjoyed by readers of all ages. In this novel Kit Frick exhibits a unique ability to write about extremely difficult issues with a captivating prose. For a second, it was like he saw me as a vase teetering on the edge of a shelf, and if he reached out fast enough, he could still keep me from falling. Her characters felt so real, like a story I could have lived through in high sch 3.
Her characters felt so real, like a story I could have lived through in high school in so many ways. All perfectly executed in the story line. Told from a first person perspective and using then and now chapters, Ellory's experiences are heartfelt and authentic. Every part of you is mine. Even the parts that are his. This book captivated me in a way like no other.
If you are a teen or young adult who has experienced challenges, Ellory's story is for you. Kit Frick's writing is easy to read, she has a story telling skill that draws you into the world of her characters. For three years, she was the Earth to my moon. Aug 02, Vicky Who Reads rated it it was ok Shelves: None of them have dipped below 2. The summary is honestly kind of vague. But besides that, I'm just at a loss at what the main point is supposed to be , even after reading the book. The best way I can describe it is like E.
Pretty non-linea r has a then-now alternating format rather than all backwards and you're just kind of reading exposition after exposition after exposition until the big reveals in the last pages. I just wasn't thrilled. I wasn't really interested and I didn't really care about the characters and it all just merged into a subpar experience because I just wasn't invested. It didn't feel suspenseful, and it didn't feel like Frick was dropping a lot of hints.
There's so much background and rumination and talking about the friend group, and I just felt like not enough physical things happened. Ellory wasn't annoying, but I also didn't relate or connect. I feel like Frick tried to get us to connect with her, especially by adding the part about art and being good at metalworking, but it never really clicked with me and she felt really bland. Plus, I felt like the whole friendship group was just bleh. Half of the exposition is about the after and is basically Ellory just being a pariah, but the other half of the exposition is talking about the friend group she had and the boyfriend she had.
And I just didn't like her friends. There is a total of 1 person in this entire book that I actively liked, and that was Bex, who was the sweet mediator of the group. But Jenni was just mean and Ret was manipulative and Ellory was boring and none of them clicked. I couldn't get what made Ellory so fixated on staying with these girls even though she didn't really like any of them. And when this book is super fixated on Ellory and her friend group, it just didn't end up working.
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It felt slow and a lot like the same things were being rehashed over and over again. Similarly, Matthias, the guy Ellory falls in love with, is meh also and I wasn't really shipping them. In some ways, this is a book about grief, but it also wasn't really. I usually cry when I read books about grief because loss of people or friendships or things is sad and it hurts and you relate to the MC. But in this, the grief about what Ellory lost was obscured in a way that really negated the impact of being a book about grief. The second one was only a little surprising, but I wasn't blown away by Frick's manipulations.
Overall, I just didn't really end up enjoying this and it wasn't for me. It was too dragged out, too long, and too predictable for me to get into, and I didn't relate with anyone. I feel like most people are better off skipping to the last pages, but if it does appeal to you, I think you should still try and check it out!
View all 4 comments. I went into reading this without any expectations or pre-knowledge and it totally surprised me. I loved this book.
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This story is about Ellory, a senior year student, and her life in Junior year. The book is basically written in two parts not divided into two parts. The first part is about the present life of Ellory in senior year and se Full review on: The first part is about the present life of Ellory in senior year and second part talks about her past as a junior year student.
She was part of a group of 4 girls along with Ret, Bex, and Jennie. Ret was kind of mastermind of the group and she manipulated everyone as per her wish. I totally get the vibes of Pretty Little Liars here. Remember Alison from that group? Yeah, I resonated Ret with Alison so much. Ellory always felt as if she was favorite of Ret. But at that time too, she was closest to Ret and shared every secret to her. But she later finds out that this is not true with Ret, however. Hot, bright, at the center of our universe.
That we revolved around her was simply a fact. I really liked the writing style of the author. The author has portrayed many serious topics in this book like parental neglect, unhealthy friendships, drug abuse among others. Making a story with all kind of issues is not always easy but the author has perfectly captured the whole essence of troubled teen lives. This story is hugely based on characters and no character is perfect.
Every one of them is flawed and complex. Ellory is a relatable character who loves art and working with metal and her dream is to get admission in her dream college in an art program. She is an only child with loving, protective parents. I loved how realistically this friendship was depicted. Ret has a negligent mother and her life is twisted in its own way.
She like to control everyone in their friendship group. Jenni is fond of cooking and always arranges night-out at her place but her parents also were almost out-of-focus. Matthias family was twisted and he never allowed Ellory to enter in his life. The biggest lesson that this story gives is how to work on hard things and how to fight your fears. You should be capable enough to learn from your own mistakes and should learn to forgive yourself. This story tells how one action of someone can cause the reactions which were never meant to happen in the first place.
The ending of the novel is the biggest point for it.
Basically, the ending has two twists. While the first twist was predictable from the mid of the book itself, I never thought about the second twist. It was a total surprise for me and finally was a factor that made me like this book even more. Though the story was entertaining and suspense was quite good, I felt as if it was little long and was kind of dragged out. I think that sometimes the past was moving too slowly and the book could have been much shorter.
Also, the romance was not the strongest point of the story. I never shipped Matthias and Ellory. From the beginning itself, their relationship felt too rushed and forced. Matthias never seems that interested while Ret was trying to prove her importance to him. Overall, this book is a complex and captivating read which definitely has the potential to keep the readers hooked till the end.
The writing of Kit Frick is really good and with the complex and layered characters, she has added a magic to the story. The final twist was definitely worth waiting. This book makes you feel connected to Ellory and her emotions on so many levels. I was really impressed with this story and I hope to read more from Kit Frick in the future.
I received this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This book was hard for me to rate because while I liked it, I also had trouble connecting to the characters in the book. I ended up with a 4 star rating because I did not see the end coming at all. This novel alternates between taking place in the past, starting the summer before Ellory's junior year then , and the present, starting just before Ellory starts her senior year now.
We know that something happened between then an I received this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. We know that something happened between then and now that left Ellory friendless and single with her only goal to make it through the year, but we don't know what happened, and we slowly learn, in this alternating timeline, the events that led to her current predicament. I really liked this way of telling the story.
I think that if the book had been chronological, I wouldn't have liked it nearly as much, because the mystery of not knowing what happened was kept intact until close to the end of the book. There were a lot of times that I found myself reading solely to find out what happened because what was currently happening wasn't really holding my interest.
I was able to predict one of the twist view spoiler [Matthias was cheating on Ellory with Ret hide spoiler ] but the other definitely surprised me. As I mentioned earlier, I had trouble connecting with the characters in this story. The whole story is told from Ellory's POV, and in the 'then' parts, we see her friendship with Ret, Jenni, and Bex, as well as her relationship with Matthias. While I couldn't connect with them, it also felt real to me, and I liked that. It was really interesting to see how the relationships changed as the story progressed, so despite personally not connecting with any of them, I still liked seeing how everything panned out with them.
I would recommend this to people who like YA contemporaries. I think it's well written and engaging and the mystery on what happened is definitely intriguing. As a side note, maybe I just have never seen this, but the fact that their school had 8 stories seemed very unrealistic to me.
I don't think I've ever heard of a school with more than 3 levels, but again, that could just be my limited knowledge of high schools around the country. Jan 04, Vani rated it really liked it Shelves: I knew this was special right away, commenting on how I loved the voice as early as the first few pages.
For the most part. Ellory, our narrator, is so special. I adore her in both the Junior and Senior year timelines. Flawed in all the right ways and so, wholly teenagerific. Nothing bother I knew this was special right away, commenting on how I loved the voice as early as the first few pages.
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Nothing bothers me more than when teenagers in books don't feel like teenagers, and Ellory is spot on. Not likable, an important distinction. But perfect for what he is. Sometimes, the good girl and bad boy thing is so very nauseating. But this is utterly believable. I believe Ellory would fall for Matthias. Their relationship feels real to me. I love her character, even though as a person I can't stand her. Also, I wanna say, I tweeted a very long time ago: There are FOUR main female characters, and there is none of that shit in this book. The writing is wonderful!
SO much can go wrong with alternating timelines, and I'm generally weary, but this is done so very well. The differences between the two are perfect, also. The THEN timeline being more about relationships and dialogue, and the NOW timeline being more about solitude and with very, very little dialogue. To be able to pull off both writing styles so well is wonderful. The pacing is spot on, too. I enjoyed the first half, but the closer we got to the end I HAD to keep reading, had to know what would happen. I was genuinely surprised. I had a lot of theories, and this wasn't one of them.
Apr 08, Danielle rated it really liked it Shelves: See All The Stars is a bunch of different themes put it into one well-written novel. It's part romance, as the story plays out main character Ellory's first love with a boy named Matthias.
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Part friendship story, as it shows Ellory's complicated friendship with Bex, Jenni, and especially her best friend Ret. And part mystery novel as the story slowly unravels what happened in Ellory's junior that left her so broken in her senior year. Overall, I really enjoyed this novel. The writing is extremely See All The Stars is a bunch of different themes put it into one well-written novel. The writing is extremely strong.
Kit Frick is a wonderful writer and I look forward to reading more from her. The story was well done and something that I wanted to keep coming back to. I had a feeling of what the twist was and was proved correct but that didn't lessen my enjoyment of the book. I would definitely recommend giving this book a read. Mar 18, Maxine Kaplan rated it it was amazing. It's a love story, but not in the way you think it is. It's a story of a crime of passion, but not in the way you think it is. It's a thriller with a twist I never saw coming until it was there and suddenly the whole book was thrown into a new and staggering light.
And it's a deeply humane and beautifully written story about healing. Definitely recommend to fans of thrillers, stories This book Definitely recommend to fans of thrillers, stories about friendships between women, and fans of drop-dead gorgeous prose. Dec 05, Kay McCray rated it it was amazing Shelves: This is a book about friendships--why we choose the friends we do, and how sometimes we have to say goodbye to people who aren't good for us.
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