Review: Fifteen Hundred Miles from the Sun by Jonny Garza Villa (Release 06/08/2021)

I received an e-arc of this book through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

I loved this book. It was sweet and fun and funny even when things got dark. I struggled to get into it at first but the further I read, the more immersed in the story I was and the more that I did not want to put this book down.

Jules and Mat are so so so cute together, and despite their bad days, they just fit together perfectly, especially when they were physically together. There were a few times that Jules’s friend group had me questioning how much the term friends actually applied and others where they were wonderful and had me forgetting why I initially disliked the group. 

I loved the inclusion of Spanish throughout the book, as a non-native speaker, sometimes understanding the words or phrases used could be difficult because so much of what was used in this book was slang terms, it made the atmosphere and characters feel more realistic though given their community.

I had been looking for a soft, fun, summer read and while this book definitely did have dark moments, the joy this book radiates outweighed the darkness and definitely fulfilled what I had been looking for in a book.


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