The Gravity Between Us: Page 201 to THE END.

[Jill]

What did you think?

[Steph]

First time commenting for the book club. Follow it though and pick and choose when to read along. Was intrigued by the summary and I'm glad I picked it up. Read it in two days much to the joy of my girlfriend.

Oh my it was adorable. Reminded me of falling in love for the first time and all the butterfly feelings associated with it. Left me with a massive smile on my face. Wouldn't say it was a real deep book but a nice little fluff piece that makes you smile at the end of the day. Sometimes you just need that.

Be curious to see what other folks thought.

(Apologies for the brevity, I'm typing on my kindle which is possibly the most annoying device to type more than one word on.)

[Kim]

Content wise I think of this as within the middle part of the book, but page wise it belongs here: It appears that Jills guess NA = YA + sex was spot on. I read this part on my way to work and missed my bus stop. It's a very nice mix and I'm looking forward to more NA recommendations.

[Lore]

Just finished reading/skimming it, and I'm afraid that I found its entertainment value lacking. I didn't like it, mostly for pretentious reasons that I'm ashamed to admit, so I won't talk about it. But I'm really glad that other people could enjoy the fluffiness of it, and that it made them smile. That's really all that matters when you pick up a book.

[Annemarie]

There's nothing pretentious about preferring books with more meat than fluff, Lore. Just a matter of taste!

[Hannah]

It was a fun, fluffy read, but not something I think I'd read more than once.

The main characters felt quite nebulous (there were times when I didn't notice we'd switched POVs, because the girls sounded so similar) but their romance was sweet, and definitely made me smile.

Personally, I would have liked the book to go deeper and show both girls exploring other relationships before finding their way back to each other.

On a side note: is it just me, or is this cover art the same stock image used for about ten other lesbian YA novels?

[Kim]

Between my three kids and a full-time job I'm very thankful for a bit of fluffy reading. It's great to still get some books read. I read this in two days, just couldn't stop. Overall it doesn't feel very deep and the ending is kind of predictive. It's still beautiful though and I enjoyed reading it immensely.

[Ali]

I battle myself every time I read a silly, fluffy, predictable book like this. I always feel like I should read something a bit more substantive, but then I'm like, "Eh. I'm tired. This is easy, and I don't have to think about it." It's book junk-food. Ain't nothing wrong with it, nor is there with preferring books with more meat. I wish I could learn to lower my expectations with these silly books though... I'm always disappointed when they are as lame as I knew they would be. But that's my own fault!

[Louise]

I have no problem with fluff, but fluff doesn't mean poorly-written. The characters had no actual personality traits and the dialogue was painful.

Was anyone else rooting for them to stay apart and find love elsewhere? These two weren't able to communicate when they were together OR when they were apart. And I find it difficult to cheer on a relationship that requires a public declaration achieved by rigging an awards ceremony. And then magically it had never even mattered? The world embraced them as the next hot celebrity couple and the families accepted them and all was perfect? And we got to hear more of how "stunning" they both were?

I think my main problem beyond the stilted dialogue was that if I'd been a teenager and read this, I'd have gotten really sad about my life.

[Louise]

Hannah wrote: "On a side note: is it just me, or is this cover art the same stock image used for about ten other lesbian YA novels?" Thank you! I was thinking the exact same thing.

[Ali]

Louise wrote: "I have no problem with fluff, but fluff doesn't mean poorly-written. The characters had no actual personality traits and the dialogue was painful."

YES. You said all the things.

[Lore]

Louise wrote: "The characters had no actual personality traits and the dialogue was painful.

Agreed... I liked Kendall (that was her name, yes-no?) more than Payton, but they seemed like the two sides of the same coin. It can be argued that that's why they liked one another.

I figured it was because I'm old, since I didn't "get" the dialogue among their friends. Stilted, yes. Uninspired, yeah, a bit...

Annemarie wrote: "There's nothing pretentious about preferring books with more meat than fluff, Lore. Just a matter of taste!"

It wasn't the fluff that bothered me, just a couple of things about the book's written style that I didn't like, personally speaking. (It's the present-tense and the switched narrative, actually. I avoid books with either, but one with both? Yikes.) Fluff is harmless. And it was a clean-looking book, edited well.

Anyone else think they would've enjoyed it more had it been entirely from Kendall's perspective? I enjoyed hearing more about her exploratory emotions than Payton's agonized self-debasements. And Payton's italicized inner-dialogue (to Kendall) made my eyebrow twitch after a while.

[Louise]

I work with teenagers and I promise none of them have used the words "remarkable" or "stunning" or "to boot" in daily chatter once in their lives. (Seriously, "to boot??") They also don't speak exposition to each other. That was so awkward.

I was just really disappointed. I love to support YA authors, and especially those who write LGBT stories, so it hurts me to be so critical. But it just wasn't well-written.

[1986]

Lore wrote: "Louise wrote: "The characters had no actual personality traits and the dialogue was painful.

Agreed... I liked Kendall (that was her name, yes-no?) more than Payton, but they seemed like the two s..."
Hi, yeah i think the same, this book isnt bad, but my feeilngs was mixed.I had problem to to tell the difference among Kendall and Payton charakters. But that I am like the most was growing feelings in Kendall, and humours accent in this book. Some of the details in books wasnt trustworthy(the second plane role, ending)but whatever i spent my time with pleasure reading this book.