pickLoved it! So happy to read another TJR. Happy pride!
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pickLoved it! So happy to read another TJR. Happy pride!
80/100🎧📖🔖
4th TJR read for Pride month
#atmosphere #taylorjenkinsreid #ebook #audiobook #goodreads #goodreadsreadingchallenge
pickThe aching queer romance, found family, and representation of the challenging dynamics of being a woman astronaut are what I loved most about Atmosphere…but I found myself looking for a more pronounced sense of time (the 1980s) and place (NASA). I would recommend this to fans of Lessons in Chemistry that I would like to convert into fans of The Lady Astronaut series by Mary Robinette Kowal!
so-so⭐️⭐️⭐️/5
Coming to this book as a fan of some of TJR's other novels, I had high hopes but ended up feeling quite underwhelmed. I agree with most that the last 10% of the book is incredibly emotional but it wasn't enough to change my view.The tone was verging on YA and I struggled somewhat to find Joan interesting.I'm not a frequent reader of space based lit but it felt like the science was lacking. There's loads of better LGBTQIA+ titles out there
It‘s a grid full of picks! One book gets the tag and so unfair to eight other books when TJR s in the mix!
5 ⭐️= Loved It, want to shout out loud about this book! I do/will own/keep a physical copy. A+
4 ⭐️= Liked it, would love to discuss. Solid B
3 ⭐️= Meh, no need to discuss. Avg C
2 ⭐️=Nope D
1 ⭐️=DNF F
pick5⭐
•I don‘t even have to know what a TJR book is about, because I know she‘s going to make it wholly worthwhile, regardless, and this book was no exception. She pulls emotion out of you like no other writer. My only nitpick: she spent an overabundance of time on the romance aspect, and I just wanted to get back to the tragedy on the spaceship.
•The narration by Kristen DiMercurio & Julia Whelan was fantastically performed.
pickTaylor Jenkins Reid is an expert at making you care about her characters. The novel is a love story set in NASA during the early 1980s, the early years of the Space Shuttle program, and it touches on sexism and homophobia. And that ending!!
Also - I much prefer the UK cover to the US one.
Book 50/60 Page 16,695/18,000 #Read2025 @DieAReader
