There’s a big time elements, the teens are at a stage where they have to move for college. Both also chose to work on themselves before getting together – that is very healthy and the kind of literature that teens should be exposed to. These small instances are what makes you as a reader, root for them. Baker asks for a little drink? Hannah gives her a little compared to other friends who offered her more.

I felt so proud that it was addressed! Hannah and Baker, when they are on speaking terms have a healthy relationship.

There is one instance in the book where Hannah deals correctly with offensive language which was meant to be a joke. As romantic partners, they are problematic and selfish – especially one of them. As friends the boys are great apart from certain moments which they apologize for. Hannah and Baker date two boys from their group. It’s so easy to fall to hate, as we see in this book but the parents don’t do that. They may not understand exactly how their children feel and their wake-up-calls may have been a shock but they are supportive of their children and they love them. Religion is a big theme in the book, which is what makes this book even more angsty for me as I come from a Roman Catholic background. Baker, for all her ‘level-headedness’ can be a bit dramatic! Both Hannah and Baker have lashed out in the book, but this is due to them dealing with the big elements of God and society and their feelings. She feels a lot of pressure and tries to do what she thinks is right. She cares deeply for Baker and her friends, although she does not always show it.īaker is kind and smart. She goes back and forth between not wanting her feelings and accepting them. In the first half of the book, there’s a lot of banter as well. However, the cute moments are plentiful – both the romantic ones and the friend one: organizing small parties in their friend’s style, cleaning up together, touching shoulders and calling each other shortened named and sleeping over, all small things that are as cute in reality as in the book. It’s full of questions that most religious people would have asked – it’s very realistic in its sadness. This book is one big angsty wound that you cannot help but love. They have teenage shenanigans and are overall great friends. Hannah’s friend group consists of Baker, Hannah’s sister Joanie, Luke, Clay and Wally, and together they are the six-pack. Baker may love her too, but for sure it’s not going to be smooth sailing! Something happens that is a turning point in the book, in Hannah and Baker’s lives and for their friend group. Her Name in the Sky follows Hannah, a teenage girl that goes to a Catholic school and who is in love with her best friend, Baker. Let me start with a short disclaimer: This is not a ‘holiday’ read, but for people that want to read something angsty and somewhat deep, this may be what you are looking for. “Her stomach hums with the familiarity of it all”

Her name in the sky kelly quindlen