This week for the Fiction Friday feature, I am reviewing the young adult novel, When the Sky Fell on Splendor by Emily Henry. This book was published in March 2019 by Penguin Young Readers Group and has a page count of 352 pages. The audiobook is 11 hours & 3 minutes in length. The following overview is provided from the B&N page: Almost everyone in the small town of Splendor, Ohio, was affected when the local steel mill exploded. If you weren’t a casualty of the accident yourself, chances are a loved one was. That’s the case for seventeen-year-old Franny, who, five years after the explosion, still has to stand by and do nothing as her brother lies in a coma. In the wake of the tragedy, Franny found solace in a group of friends whose experiences mirror her own. The group calls themselves The Ordinary, and they spend their free time investigating local ghost stories and legends, filming their exploits for their small following of YouTube fans. It’s silly, it’s fun, and it keeps them from dwelling on the sadness that surrounds them. Until one evening, when the strange and dangerous thing they film isn’t fiction—it’s a bright light, something massive hurtling toward them from the sky. And when it crashes and the teens go to investigate…everything changes.
This is a fantastically written novel. I love the character-driven story. The way information about the relationships between the characters is revealed as similar things happen in real time was a fun way to handle those reveals. The pacing of the book was easy for me to get lost in. I would be reading and then stop for a bathroom break and realize 45 minutes had gone by. I can’t recommend this book enough.
I give this novel 4 out of 5 stars.
Tomorrow for the Missing Person Saturday, I am highlighting the missing person’s case of Skip Conrad. Next week for the Fiction Friday feature, I am reviewing the humor & satire Audible Original, Cut and Run by Ben Acker, and Ben Blacker. Until then keep reading on; Nerd out!
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