Name: ashley hopkins's review of The Girl Who Read the Stars by Skylar Dorset
Item: The Girl Who Read the Stars
Rating: 3
Author: ashley hopkins

Skylar Dorset

"Romantic, suspenseful and witty all at once--ALICE IN WONDERLAND meets NEVERWHERE."--Claudia Gray, New York Times bestselling author of the Evernight series on The Girl Who Never WasSet after Skylar Dorset's debut The Girl Who Never Was and before the thrilling conclusion to her Otherworld duology, The Boy With the Hidden Name, this novella is told from the perspective of Merrow, the Fay of the Summer Equinox. Merrow could tell is was going to be a good school year because Jupiter was moving into her constellation. Merrow read the stars...well, sometimes she got a feeling anyway. The stars were always dancing--they were difficult to understand. And then there was Trow. He was a new boy at school and Merrow got a feeling... Which is weird because she's never minded being on her own before. (She wasn't exactly popular.) But there was something about Trow. And a prophecy and fate and danger and love--if only the stars would hold still.

An Otherworld novella

The Girl Who Read the Stars

ashley hopkins

Quick Thought (or not)
Even though this says Novella 1.5 I went ahead and read it before I read the first book which is The Girl Who Never Was. I didn't really feel like I had to read that one in order to understand what was going on. It did however take almost to the end of this novella to find out what secrets were being hid, and I'm not sure had I read the first book I would of known or not. 

I wasn't overly impressed with Merrow, but I enjoyed her enough to want to know what happened. After being locked in her bed room from her Mother, and getting out only to come back and find the house destroyed she embarks on a mystery (that's what I'll call it) to find out what happened, and where her mothers are, and more than anything find out who she is.

In her little "mystery journey" she had the help from Trow the boy she made friends with at school. I enjoyed Trow. We learn later what secrets he has hidden, and I kind of like him after the fact. The responsibility he has for someone his age is tremendous, but he doesn't let it get him down.

The beginning of the story we learn that Merrow actually has Two Mothers. One she calls Mom who is her real mom and then one she calls Mother who is Mom's partner. I love this because it's something different and fresh, and both of them are in her life.

As everything unfolds and Merrow and Trow learn who they both are I'm like okay..awesome, and then it ends. 

I'm hoping that The Boy with the Hidden Name will somehow pick up from that.

And I will leave you with this!

"You Tell Me Merrow. What do the stars say?"
"I don't care." and I kiss him.
"And what does that say?"
"That sometimes we make the stars read exactly what we want them to," I answer.
"Rewrite the story," Trow says.
"Exactly."

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