The Liar's Guide to the Night Sky
Brianna R. Shrum
Perfect for fans of the New York Times bestselling novel, Love & Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch It's no one’s fault that Hallie Jacob is alone. That her grandpa got sick half a world away and so her parents yanked her to Colorado the last semester of her senior year. That career-wise, she’s specialized in fighting fire, and now she’s surrounded by ice, snow, and a thousand cousins she’s half-banned from hanging around with. But that’s what's happened. That's what her December looks like. On one big family weekend in the freaking tundra, Hallie sneaks off with those cousins to an abandoned ski slope. But they get caught in a random mudslide, and what started as a Secret Bonfire Party goes in a Potential Donner Party direction real fast. With some cousins in desperate need of medical attention, Hallie leaves their camp for help—and is surprised when Jonah Ramirez (her cousin's extremely off-limits—absurdly hot—best friend) joins her. Facing paralyzing temperatures, sharp-toothed animals strong enough to survive a climate with hardly any water or air, and weather phenomena so wicked they’ll wreck a mountain before you can blink, Jonah and Hallie have no choice but to trust each other as they search for the way to town to send help back to their stranded friends and family. And THAT may be more impossible, even, than making it out alive.
Publication Year: 2020
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Thank you Edelweiss and the publisher for giving me a copy in exchange of a honest review.
4.25
TW: INJURIES, INFECTION,PTSD
Halli is forced to move just when she is about to finish high school. The thing is the only people she knows there are her family with whom she has always had a complicated relationship. Her dad has a bad relationship with his brother and it makes things complicated between Hally and her cousins.
One day some of her cousins and their friends decide to go to the mountain and explore and everything goes downhill.
I will briefly talk about the plot because i think there are more important things. A disaster happens and we see how Hallie goes in search of help with Jonah a friend of her cousin Jax. From here their little adventure turns into a survival story.
Jonah is Pansexual and Aromantic. Not a lot of young adult books dare to mention those words. So thank you so much for doing so. Jonah explains how he feels regarding his sexuality and what it is to be part of that community. He explains how being an Aromantic person is and what are his feelings towards people.
Hallie is part of the LGBTQ+ community as well, but i dont know her labels so i wont say anything.
There is a f/f side relationship and we know that her cousin Jolie is atractted to girls.
Jonah is a poc as are Jolie and Jax who are bicerial children.
There is also discussion of Religion and Hallie is Jewish.
What i liked the most was how Hallie and Jonah both found what could be calld a soulmate. It doesnt have to be love related but soul related. They get to know eachother and they feel understood. Their conection is more than just physical or whatever. It was amazing to see two people just clicking in that way.
This book is also sex positive and once again i appreciate that. Teenagers have sex. Thats something not a lot of people want to talk about. There is also no slut shaming and no weird conversations about the people they have liked or had sex with. It just something that happened and should be important to other people.
I just can't say how helpful this book is and how much it explains and contains.
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