Right off the bat, before reading " Starworld ," you should know: it is not a love story. Actually, let me amend that. It is not a romantic love story. Starworld centers on two girls, Zoe and Sam. Zoe is sort of the queen bee, popular-for-being-nice type at her school. However, at home, her mom is going through perpetual chemotherapy and her brother, who is severely disabled, is being sent to a group home. Sam's mother, who has severe OCD, makes her home life similarly challenging. Together they begin a text chain where they create an imaginary world and explore it. They also share fears, hopes, and dreams with each other. Spoiler free : Starworld is hard to rate. It was quite readable (I finished in about two hours.) and had a lot of good representation for disabilities, mental illness, and other things that might be spoilers. The way the girls communicate will take some getting used to, but after about a third of the book I found myself not even noticing it. T...
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