I received an ARC of this book via NetGalley. This book has content warnings for drug use, alcohol use, unhealthy relationships, and death.

I loved this book -- it's one of those books that pulls you in and doesn't let you go until the very end. This book alternates between two timelines: Ellory's junior year and Ellory's senior year. The switching was handled really well and really created tension and mystery surrounding the story, and it had me on my toes as I read.

The emotion in this book is raw and gut-wrenching; there is so much sadness and loneliness and it all really rang true to me. There is a stark contrast between the friend-surrounded Ellory of junior year and relatively-isolated Ellory of senior year, and it hurts to read, but it hurts to read in a way that made me want to share Ellory's pain as I read.

See All The Stars dives deep into first love and teenage friendships in a beautifully heartbreaking story. There is a twist at the end, which I will not spoil, that really changes the way you see the rest of the book that you've just read. It's wonderfully-crafted and engaging, and I wholeheartedly recommend it.

Final rating: 5 of 5 stars

If you are looking for your typical high school drama story, here it is. Told from before and after the event you get the repercussions before you get the actual event. The story itself was well written, but I had a hard time getting invested as it was hard to watch all of the toxic relationships and bad decisions. At the beginning the characters were hard to tell apart, but by the end each character had grown into their own distinct person. This high school drama had a lot going on such as juggling high school relationships, friend groups and college applications. The ending felt a little off for me. On the one hand, it felt anti-climatic and on the other hand it caught me by surprise. The whole book I was waiting for this book reveal of what divided the before and the after, once it was revealed I just thought to myself "really?" and then the second part of the event happened and I was really caught off guard. It pulled everything together in a really nice way. The way that it is written, jumping back and forth between the past and present, did a good job of pulling me in as I wanted to know where the friendship fractured but in some cases it made it difficult to keep track of what was happening. I am giving it three stars because it was good, just not great.

I was really looking forward to reading this book but I have been unable to download it in the current format.  Hopefully I can read it when it is published.

This book was hard for me to rate because while I liked it, I also had trouble connecting to the characters in the book. I ended up with a 4 star rating because I did not see the end coming at all.

This novel alternates between taking place in the past, starting the summer before Ellory's junior year (then), and the present, starting just before Ellory starts her senior year (now). We know that something happened between then and now that left Ellory friendless and single with her only goal to make it through the year, but we don't know what happened, and we slowly learn, in this alternating timeline, the events that led to her current predicament. 

I really liked this way of telling the story. I think that if the book had been chronological, I wouldn't have liked it nearly as much, because the mystery of not knowing what happened was kept intact until close to the end of the book. There were a lot of times that I found myself reading solely to find out what happened because what was currently happening wasn't really holding my interest. I was able to predict one of the twist but the other definitely surprised me.

As I mentioned earlier, I had trouble connecting with the characters in this story. The whole story is told from Ellory's POV, and in the 'then' parts, we see her friendship with Ret, Jenni, and Bex, as well as her relationship with Matthias. While I couldn't connect with them, it also felt real to me, and I liked that. It was really interesting to see how the relationships changed as the story progressed, so despite personally not connecting with any of them, I still liked seeing how everything panned out with them.

I would recommend this to people who like YA contemporaries. I think it's well written and engaging and the mystery on what happened is definitely intriguing. As a side note, maybe I just have never seen this, but the fact that their school had 8 stories seemed very unrealistic to me. I don't think I've ever heard of a school with more than 3 levels, but again, that could just be my limited knowledge of high schools around the country.

Kit Frick keeps you guessing in her suspenseful YA novel, See All The Stars.

Ellory returns to Pine Brook for senior year after a two-month suspension from school. She narrates the story with shifts between the past and the present, hinting at deception, betrayal, and violence but never giving away the mystery until the final pages.

See All The Stars is full of beautifully crafted description.  Although, I admit the eerie and chilling tone did give me nightmares!

Frick has given readers a thriller with plenty of suspense and mystery, and I did not anticipate the powerful twist of the ending. The depth of story was utterly satisfying.

See All The Stars is highly recommended YA fiction for readers who enjoy mystery and suspense in a contemporary setting.

See all the stars is one of those books that stays with you. Since the first chapter I knew this book was going to be something special to me. I could relate with the main character, I could feel her pain and her struggles with trying to move on. It's a book about friendship, heartbreak, betrayal, and finding yourself on your own way, meaning you decide who you get to be not other people. The book alternates between the past and present day, this way you start to piece together what happened to the main character. At some point it reminded me a lot of Pretty Little Liars, in the sense that something big happened between the group of four friends, something so big that they never talked to each other again. Then, you have the romance aspect, in which something happened between the two lovers that he is no longer part of the MC life. For me this book hit close to home since I had a similar dynamic with some friends in high school, I felt that without them, I was nobody. I had a best friend that I knew I was special to her but the way the relationship developed and she started treating me, it wasn't how a true friendship should be. Eventually we parted our ways and it was hard, but I learned to think and act for myself and If I had stayed with that group, I would not have been able to do that. 

This book also had a little suspense to it, since you do not know what happened between the characters, and when we found out, you can say it can be a little surprising. Personally I was not expecting it, but when I found out, a lot of things made sense. I completely suggest this book if you are into a contemporary, "suspense" story. It is completely relatable, you can have 30 years and still feel the struggles and issues the characters were going through in High School.

NetGalley gave me a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review, so! Let's start! 

A friend of mine read this book before me and advised me to go into it without taking into consideration her review or rating. So that's what I did. But even if I hadn't I would have never seen this coming. 

This is a coming of age story worthy of the title. Many times we read stories about teens and their struggles and yet we can't relate- no matter the age, we all have to go through that phase. Even though some people may call it extreme I think this is a perfectly accurate depiction of some friendships amongst girls. The two main characters, Ellory and Ret, are both very complex characters, full of layers that some times intertwine, pushing them apart and pulling them together. This dance, almost, may seem weird and too dramatic and Hollywood-y for some, but I couldn't disagree more. It is a very strange dynamic that develops, almost unnatural and definitely toxic, but also a very real one. 

This is a truly fascinating book that focuses on friendship and relationships and it's far, far from cliché. I wish I could have read this when I was younger.

I received an advanced copy of this book from NetGalley. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

4.5🌟 

"It's hard to find the truth beneath the lies you tell yourself." Kit Frick
It was a nice reading with teens and their problems. It's a lot of teen drama from highschool, handling boys, school, friends. I was a little bit confused by the ping-pong between then and now chapters. I think now I would read the entire THEN part and then skip to the NOW, seems logical this way.

I liked Ellory and Mathias. Ret was not my kind of girl, too mean, too self-absorbed. It looked like everything was spining around her. 

The end was abrupt but all over everything flowed naturally. It was sad and heart-broking. 

Over all it was a reading I enjoyed. I'm looking forward to see the next book from this author.

"Whoever said that time heals all wounds didn't know what he was talking about. Time dulls the wounds, makes them bearable. But it doesn't patch you up and send you on your way, good as new." Kit Frick

This books was much more suspenseful than I expected, and the shift between then and now really dded t the tense atmosphere. I don't want to give away anything, but I did not see that twist in the end coming!

This book sucked me in from the very first chapter. The switching perspectives from 'NOW' to 'THEN' keep the mystery alive throughout the whole novel and they keep you reading so you find out what the event that caused such a change in these characters' lives is. And the twist at the end will leave you shocked!

Thank you NetGalley for the ARC. 
The book revolves around Ellory and her circle of friends. The books starts off with a party that changes their life forever. How friends become foe. I liked the mystery aspect of the story but found it too slow at times. It will make you keep reading it nonetheless just to find out what happened to the girls to make them fall apart. It could easily be the next Mean girls.

Thanks to Netgalley for providing me a copy for an honest review.  This book focuses around an incident that has changed Ellory's life.   The problem for me was that it took over 250 pages for the incident to be revealed.  This book has good reviews on Goodreads, but it wasn't my cup of tea.  Unfortunately, for me, I did not find it fast-paced.  It lacked the motivation to keep me reading.  After about 175 pages, I realized that I was just reading to finish it.  Therefore, I finally just skipped to the end to see what had happened.   While I enjoyed the end of the book, it was just too much of a slow- burn for me.

First, I want to give a big thank you to Netgalley for providing me an early copy of this book.

This book was honestly amazing! Kit Frick really has a way with words. Her writing style is so captivating and beautiful. I was not expecting to love this book as much as I did and I will hands down be  buying my own finished copy when it i released!

See All the Stars is about a girl named Ellory, who one day goes to a party with her best friend Rett. Here Ellory meets a boy and this is where the whole book truly begins book begins. This book has alternating chapters between 'then' and 'now'. In all the 'then' chapters you see Ellory with many toxic relationships, especially involving her best friend Rett. In 'now' you see the division and you know that Ellory has isolated herself from everyone. You just don't know why, how, and  you don't know when. That is the big mystery of this novel. This novel is very fast paced and executed AMAZINGLY!

I thought this book was spectacular! I spent the whole entire novel trying to piece all the broken pieces together and I still didn't see the big plot twists coming. I loved the characterizations of everyone in this book and I HIGHLY recommend this book to everyone who loves thrillers, mystery's, and even the movie Mean Girls to read this book!

Thanks to NetGalley for providing me a complimentary copy of SEE ALL THE STARS by Kit Frick in exchange for my honest review

I finished this book a couple of days ago and it's still with me. See All the Stars ticks all the boxes for me: Intelligent prose with a lyrical feel, a dual timeline that kept the pace moving and MOVE, it did. Vivid characters I came to know and made a part of my own world for a few days. And did I mention that twist at the end? I did not see it coming and it left me speechless for a few minutes.

Kit Frick has shown us friendship and high school and emotions and regret. She's shown us sociopathy and destruction, illness and love. This book is dark and rich, like fine chocolate. Savor it.

See All the Stars will draw you in and have you hooked from page one. 
There is a host of characters but our main character, Ellory is our storyteller. 
Her story flips back and forth between her, Junior and Senior year in, High School.

You are aware that an incident has occurred because the close knit group of friends, suddenly becomes torn apart, with Ellory becoming ostracized. Frick captures the mean girl, herd mentality relationships that happen among teen girls and how secrets and lies tear apart the foundation of relationships, regardless of how tightly knit the appear to be. 

The story line is well thought out and the characters are well developed. The words leap off the pages and keep you mesmerized. This is a stunning debut, with twists and turns. One of them is very predictable but the other one keeps you in the dark and when it is revealed everything falls into place, wrapping this book up with perfection. 

If you love, Pretty Little Liars, you will love, See all the Stars!

I finished this book last night, but I couldn't write a review then, as I was too emotional. I literally finished the book, sat quietly in shock for a minute and then the tears started streaming and just wouldn't stop. When a book can emotionally captivate you like that, you know it's an amazing one. There was no chance I could even contemplate giving this book anything less than five stars. I read this book in three sittings; the last sitting I read over 200 pages. I honestly just couldn't stop. The secret wasn't revealed to the very, very end and I was so confused about what it might be that I knew I couldn't put the book down, go to sleep and start again the next day. This book is compared to 'We Were Liars' which is a book I've read and a really great one at that, but due to this I knew the secret was going to be a shocking one. I kinda have hope for Ellory and Matthias down the line. What he did was bad and I should hate him, but I'm still for some reason really drawn to him. I'm also in two minds about how I feel about Ret. This story is definitely going to stick with me for a long time.

This book took me back to high school. This a great depiction of a teenage girl and the struggles she must deal with in her formative years. High school isn't easy, throw a calculating best friend into the equation and you are sure to have one hard ride. I found this book to be written almost like a true story and I guess it could be because Kit Frick has an uncanny ability to bring her characters to life in such a short time. I am intrigued to see what else she can do.

I was unfortunately unable to download this title. Thank you for the opportunity and I will look for it in my future reading.

Poignant, riveting, achingly heartbreaking. These are just a few words to describe what is the essence of ‘See All The Stars’. 

This book was at the top of my 2018 reading list as soon as I read the synopsis, I knew it was for me so thank You Netgalley and Simon & Schuster for the approval. I never got through a book this fast and that’s saying something. 

It was just so unexpected. Unpredictable. Unequivocal. A few parts were predictable and I got straight away but I was like woah at the same time, I’m not really sure how else to describe this amazing book. It’s also the authors debut novel which in itself is wondrous so kudos to her and her team. 

I just wish the ending didn’t leave me so blasė. I felt like I needed more but I guess that just shows what a great book it is- when you’re still Thinking about it long after it’s over. 

I would definitely recommend this book for everyone to buy as soon as it’s released.

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I . . . " 

Yes, I read this super early, several months in advance of its release date, but I couldn't get it off my mind once I saw the cover and read the blurb. When a book like this is sitting on your Kindle, you read it, publish date ignored. Within a handful of pages, I knew this was the sort of book that required my full attention. Kit Frick's beautiful prose pulled me into the solar system made up of Ellory, Ret, Bex, and Jennie, with me flickering on the sidelines as a star, watching their natural rotation unravel. With Ellory as our narrator, we see the friends in the past and in the present, known only as Then and Now. We know the friendship was rocky and dependent on Ret, we know now that they are no longer friends, we know that something happened in the summer of junior year, and we know that all Ellory wants is to get through her senior year unseen and unheard. 

"Somewhere, there's an alternate reality version of Ellory. . . . I think about that girl sometimes, until the wanting gets too big, . . . "

I don't want to ruin the novel for readers checking out reviews in advance of See All the Stars' release date, so this review will be as broad as I can make it. I'll try not to gush endlessly, but really, I want to, and I want to post the 29,803 quotes that I highlighted. A coming of age story that belongs with the best of them, See All the Stars takes you back to the high school halls filled with drama, friendships, and first love. The alternating storyline allows readers to become a part of the story, reliving Ellory's junior year experiences and floating alongside her while she hides from everyone during her senior year. With a large cast of secondary characters, we visit parties, river banks, classrooms, and bedrooms, each character and scene proving to be pivotal to the story line. 

"Our hands were the beginning of a spectacular, bright promise."

Then, we recognize her naivety in her willingness to submit to her friend Ret, the self appointed leader of their group, and in her desperate hope to make her first real relationship last. We learn that though Ret and Ellory call themselves best friends, they're held together more out of necessity, they need each other, just as they need the other two to balance them out. We watch her downward spiral as she accepts the use of alcohol and drugs around her, how she lets things slide that as readers we scream at her to question, and how she becomes a puppet to a friend's desperate need to have her all to herself. Now, we praise her complex development as she ages another year, but we also ache with each lie she believes and each lie she tells herself. As Now reaches the last chapters, we rejoice as Ellory learns to face the thing that left her friendless, boyfriendless, and alone. The style of writing, and the alternating time frames allows readers to experience the then, while also uncovering the truths that the friends didn't know at the time, revealing us the details of the fall. The accident, something we don't know understand until the end, pulls the friends in two directions and Kit Frick's decision to only write from Ellory's perspective forces us to choose her side. 

"My mom calls what happened the fall. It's a kindness, a shortcut, a way of taking something hard and shaping it into two little words that can slip off your tongue."

See All the Stars is the sort of novel that shouldn't be limited to only readers of the Young Adult genre. It's too complex, too big of a story to be ignored by readers of New Adult, Adult, and Contemporary Fiction. The depth of See All the Stars makes it feel very real, making me not only empathize with the characters, but also reevaluate my own personal experiences, putting myself in the same shoes. The focus on relationships, lies, truth, and forgiveness made for a very compelling story. The characters are very well developed, made up of layers and flaws, their emotions ruling their decisions. I was able to guess at some of the plot, but the final chapters of the book proved that the true reveal was one worth waiting for. The shock factor was huge and unexpected, but perfect for a novel that makes you care so much for the main character and the hurt that she had gone through. I was incredibly impressed to find that See All the Stars is Kit Frick's debut novel and I really hope to see more from her. 

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-I took the one with Ret."