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The Sky Between You and Me by Catherine Alene
1.0

DNF at 31%

I received this book for free through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review!

I'm gonna be honest, from the first few chapters I knew this book wasn't for me. I wanted to see it through, I really did, but I just found myself reading less, and skimming more. I've read books in prose before, and often love the format, but felt it just didn't fit this book. Additionally, we never get a proper introduction to the characters, names just start being thrown. And at 5%, an important event happened that I felt lost all weight on me because I didn't feel attached to any characters yet. The way things were described and the flow of the entire book just wasn't for me at all either. It also didn't help that the way Rae was shown and written made her feel unlikable, and we only got to see her pushing herself away from everyone, and then getting mad when they were worried/hanging out with other people instead. In the beginning of the novel, it should've been super important to build up a bond between reader and narrator, but instead we got thrown into the chaos with no way of knowing how things used to be.