Hello everyone!

Today I will be talking about a book for kids and young adults by Wendy Mass. The novel is called Every Soul a Star. Here we are presented to three teenagers names Ally, Bree and Jack. Each chapter skips from one to another, you live in the three of them, if you get to live through them at all.

Every Soul a Star

photo by: Vernon Barford School
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I have a very unpopular opinion about this book, since I absolutely hated it. I have to accept that I didn’t even finished it, I got to like the second third of the book and closed it and never opened it again.

I found this perspective in Goodreads.com and I thought it catches the theme of the book pretty well and the way it’s described it might be a bit more appealing than it actually is.

“For the first 200 pages, you are wonder several things. What’s going to happen? Why am I supposed to care? What do these three characters have to do with each other?

EVERY SOUL A STAR follows three narrators as two of them congregate on a campground owned by one of the character’s family.

From the front flap:
Ally:
Ally likes the simple things in life- labyrinths, stargazing, and comet hunting. Her home, the Moon Shadow campground, is a part of who she is. She refuses to imagine it any other way.

Bree:
Popular, gorgeous (everybody says so), and a future homecoming queen for sure, Bree wears her beauty like a suit of armor. but what is she trying to hide?

Jack:
Overweight and awkward, Jack is used to spending a lot of time alone. But when opportunity knocks, he finds himself in situations he would never would have imagined.

Mass brings these three separate characters and constructs a well-thought out and brilliantly explained story of self-discovery and friendship. Mass describes everything in the right detail and allows you to not only see the Moon Shadow campground, but to breathe it, your skin will prickle. When it comes time for the eclipse, you will be emotional and eager. Just like with the eclipse, the last fifty pages flash by and last a lifetime.

When I finished EVERY SOUL A STAR, I felt convinced that I was a fourth narrator and had just made lifelong friends.” – By: Jonathon Arntson

After reading some of the descriptions I realized that none of them were negative, I have decided to give the book another chance. Maybe I was too young when I read it to understand it or didn’t read it on the right time to be able to cope with it. I will be letting you know my new perspective or if it’s the same.

Enjoy your reading!