The Sky is Everywhere is the debut novel of Jandy Nelson. Lennie, or Lennon (she was named after the Beatle), just lost her sister and doesn't know quite how to cope. Her and her family are going through the motions but they're lost without Bailey. Bailey's boyfriend, Toby (?), helps her keep her sister's memory alive while the new kid, Joe, helps her forget and allows her to start becoming herself again. This is her journey through loss, love, and healing.
I didn't agree with the way Lennie was portrayed with her sister's boyfriend or her trying to through the loss. It all just felt so shallow to me and that she really may have missed her sister, but now Toby was free so let's mess with him. To me she was basically a stereotypical "slut" and the love triangle felt too forced and weird. One minute she was thinking about sex with Toby, then she was thinking with Joe, and then random boys from the funeral. None of it made sense. The other characters were also stereotypes to me and it all just bothered me. Then a certain part came up and I went from just disliking this book to hating this book.
The author made a very poor word choice: the r word. If you don't know what that is, I'll explain it in depth to maybe make it obvious. I hate that word as it is because normally people use it to make fun of mentally challenged people and to see it in a book that was labeled "funny" and "coming of age" I was absolutely livid. There were other words that she could have used. That one wasn't necessary. This book lost me after that. I know the whole book is about her deciding which guy to "do" and I just wasn't about this book. It's only even getting one star because it made me laugh once which is a hard feat. While books make me smile and cry like crazy, not a lot make me actually laugh out loud.
1/5 Star
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