Title: The Sky Is Everywhere
Author: Jandy Nelson
Pages: 288
 

When I picked this one in the bookstore I never thought it was the same book that I always passed by, the blue hardbound cover with a giant heart floating in the sky. It turns out it’s the same book. I was attracted more with the paperback edition. It was a very lovely cover.

Lennon’s sister Bailey died, and because of this she was completely depressed. She’s having a difficult time moving on, because she and her sister share a very tight bond. She also saw that her boyfriend, Toby is struggling the same way. They both shared the same feeling— feelings which she confusingly mixed with physical attraction. But every time something happen to them, she remember her sister and feel guilty about it. But she doesn’t know why she is attracted the way she is to Toby. That she can’t help seeing him sad — lonely just like her.

When she returns to school, she met a new guy Joe, who unlike Toby, sends some positive spirit to her very gloomy soul. He like music and seems very interested on her. When things starting to get deeper with Joe and her. Joe saw her kissing Toby, because even though Joe is now with her, she can’t help but go to Toby’s side. Because she know exactly what is Toby’s feeling and she thinks she is the only who can understand him.

I’m never a big fan ‘non-fiction-but-still-fiction’ books, you know those realistic drama theme. No sparkling vampires, faeries and the likes, just good ol’ teen drama. But this one is ok. Like I said I never was a fan but sometimes book like this is good breather to my paranormal obsession. Death is something people struggled to, not to the person who died but the people they left. And this is what the book exactly portrayed.

They said that it’s for older teens with language and the theme. Well, for me it wasn’t unerringly maturish for teens, I think it’s ok for them to read it. The sexual theme in this book wasn’t mature in nature, in fact most kids felt this way — especially those are depressed, because they mixed the physical to emotional belongingness. And that’s exactly what happened to Lennie. She was confused with her attraction with the two boys. I can understand why she felt that way to Toby, they both felt the same way — miserable, sharing the same place in their Bailey’s back hole. And as Lennie said whenever they are together they ease their pain of lost, even for a moment. But what she felt for Joe, and Toby are not the same. Clearly she likes Joe because she likes him. Toby in the other hand is an escape from sadness, and they both know.

Glad everything was resolved in the end. There are moments in the book that was nice, like the way her grandmother saw why their mother left them. She wasn’t mad, or sees the behavior of her daughter hostile or negative. I like how Lennie struggled and found her way back without her sister — on her own. She is not just her shadow anymore, she is her own. It was a nice book, a breather. For something not my cup of tea, it was good— a very nice book.