Out of the Blue: The inside story of the unexpected rise and rapid fall of Liz Truss

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I mean, I even wanted to hug that plum-color-dressed side character and tell her all will be fine and there's nothing to worry about. Jaya, biracial gay and scottish, finds a fallen angel in a world where angels keep falling from the sky without anyone knowing why. She's mourning her mother, dealing with her distant father and little sister, and the sudden disappearance of her on-again, off-again sort-of girlfriend all while mysterious, angelic Beings are falling from the sky. You don't know me and probably will not be able to comprehend what that means but I was being late for a music festival in the middle of the summer in one of the sunniest cities in Europe so I can finish reading this bloody book (for the first time).

I have a big soft spot for swimming (I always wanted to be a mermaid as a child), and this book definitely brought back those childhood dreams. It deals with grief in a really fascinating way as Jaya and her family attempt to recover from her mother’s death.It's really nice to see not only a whole society of people without a gender binary, but also a love interest happily using they/them pronouns and no one flinching. THE ANGEL, especially after all the wing grafts where she has different color wings ooooohhhh yeah, IS SO BEAUTIFUL.

Crest is not excited to be on their Journey: the monthlong sojourn on land all teen merfolk must undergo. It was so annoying Here’s an interesting and useful article about why you should use the singular they. I also thought the fake dating was solid, there was good communication, a well paced shifting from fake to real, and there was definitely chemistry between the characters. I was seriously sitting here like,,, really,,, y’all seriously gotta strictly enforce the whole Western gender binary thing onto creatures who may not even have a concept of gender?I know this has a lot to do with trauma and I get that the main character actively pushes away all of her thoughts about her mother's death but just as a personal preference, it's something that I don't really enjoy reading. He said in an interview with Bloomberg News that he and Cole would edit the book and add a new chapter, [16] titled "Into the Red".

There is LGBTQIA+ representation as well as cystic fibrosis representation for one of the characters Allie. Some aspects of the novel that made this a 4 star instead of a 5 star: some miscommunication that I felt was pretty unavoidable and near, close but not quite cheating? There’s a very slow to develop, but lovely romance that develops between Jaya and Allie (I seriously thought it was going to be with the Being but nah - like I said, their appearance was more of an impetus for specific plot purposes rather than the main event). I felt like the lyricism of the story as a whole was beautifully sustained, but there were some paragraphs that stood out as more purple than the rest, which really threw me off, but I'm not the biggest fan of that style of writing, so I'm sure it's actually a pro for more people! The second Crest starts considering staying on land, it's about whether or not they want to give up human physical affection, if sex is better than the mer version, etc.Overall, I did have a lot of fun with this one, but I wish the back half had been just a little more polished. However, I do think using the pronouns they/their/theirs would have benefited more in this scenario. This is a book I probablydefinitely should have just written a mini-review of as soon as I finished it, but I was in a reading/writing/reviewing/blogging/life slump and I didn’t. What I mean is that there are two different stories here, the angels falling from the sky and Jaya's family drama, and they are not connected at all except for the fact that Jaya and her family seem to be making it all about them. The Beings are mysterious from the first page to last, but I think that just adds to the charm of the story.