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All the Worlds Between Us

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Thanks to netgalley for the copy of the ebook in exchange of a honest review.

Honestly this book didn't hit the mark for me.
While I love Quinn character, I found Kennedy less than likeable. I thought there was more of a connection with between Quinn and Riley and was hoping they would end up back together.

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ALL THE WORLDS BETWEEN US combined two of my favourite things: sapphic romances, and sports! A truly enjoyable read with a writing style that kept me turning pages!

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To begin, thank you to NetGalley for providing me a copy of this book to read, all opinions are my own. :)
This book, was SO GOOD!!
I am typically a sucker for sport romance, and this is such a cute, refreshing, light read from what I'm used to reading nowadays.
I feel like most of us can relate to Quinn when it comes to sports or anything else because her strongheaded nature, and she wants the championship so badly.
I like how in the excerpt it says she wants to stop drowning on dry land, because it gives the tiniest glimpse of how hard mental health can hit sometimes when dealing with so many things at once. HEA for anyone wondering!.

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This book was not exactly what I expected, and I mean that in a good way. From the beginning I thought this would just be another high school romance. And it was that, but it was more than that. There were quite a few things I didn't see coming, so the story wasn't that predictable. As for the ending, I also didn't expect that and I thought it was quite mature for a YA, which definitely is a good thing.

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a good lesbian romance novel, in addition to a good novel that is able to give a complete view of not only the main but also nuanced subplots.

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I really enjoyed the queer rep and the way competitive sports were portrayed.
The writing style wasn’t really for me but it was still an enjoyable read!

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I really liked the premise of the book, but it was unfortunately not for me. I enjoyed the writing style and the characters though!

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perfect for fans of Simon vs the homo salinas agenda. This story touched my heart, i also play competitive sports and the story really resonated with me with the ideas of having to put your life on pause to work for something you want so badly. i really loved the look at the other relationships Quinn has and the fact that while trying her best to make her dream come true she still faced very down to earth problems

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I have to say I just couldn’t get into this book at all. It seem all over the place to me and I just didn’t enjoy it.

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Alright I'm a sucker for some teen angst and I'm enjoying the sports books tat are coming out recently. Everyone needs a good coming of age story and Morgan lee Miller did a great job writing one.

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I'm a sucker for a good sports drama and this one was even better because it had positive queer rep!

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Not quite sure how I feel about this one...

It was cute. Very cute. I did like the MC and her love interest; however, it's a bit... forgettable.

I enjoyed this title while reading it, but now, a few months later, it's kind of just... blended into the background of my mind.

Nonetheless, it was a nice read, so if you're just looking for a cute contemporary, feel free to check it out, you will enjoy it!

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Amazing book. Kept you wanting to read until there was nothing else to read. Would love for a sequel to see how the rest of their lives work out.

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I like that this book has a female protagonist who is into sports, not to mention that it is about swimming. Women in sports get overlooked in fiction and I enjoyed the representation in this book.

The writing style was fantastic, keeping pages turning, the plot itself felt original and compelling.

I did struggle a little with the protagonist, I found her hard to relate to, but by the end of the book, I wanted her to find what she was looking for, to find happiness.

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A pretty solid book for a debut novel. I liked Quinn quite a lot but sadly not much liked Kennedy who was willing to watch Quinn being bullied and too scared for her own reputation.
With the ending I can't help but wonder if another book will follow up? It feels it's the case.

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I thought this was a pretty good YA read. I also think this may be Miller’s first book so I thought it was well written for a debut. I didn’t love all of Miller’s story choices but overall it was a decent read.

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I love diverse books, and was eager to read this. However, I found the story didn't grip me as much as I expected, and the characters fell a bit flat. I may pick this back up in the future.

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This story had a few things I love in books: Sports and high school girls from different social status getting together. Quinn and Kennedy's story has a lot of teenage drama, and it's possibly too much at some point (I didn't agree with some of it, re: being out) but it was great and... well, now it has me waiting for the sequel.

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All the Worlds Between Us is now one of my favourite f/f romance novels.

I love reading stories about a goal-driven protagonist, especially overachievers, and Quinn satisfies this perfectly. After failing to qualify for the Olympics a year ago, Quinn is determined to win a top medal at the swimming World Championships in ten months. Inevitably, this becomes also becomes the time in which her relationship with her twin brother becomes worse and romance re-enters her life.

Quinn has already come out, is comfortable in her sexuality and has found her people. Quinn feels like a real queer teen, who is very comfortable with the term gay and makes her own gay jokes. I loved her millennial voice. In fact, Morgan captured the teen voice perfectly with all its millennial humour without being ‘cringey’. The references to contemporary queer and pop culture felt authentic and made the story vibrant.

It was very comforting reading about a protagonist who, though is different from me in terms of hobbies and personality, I saw much of myself in. I saw my queer friends in her friend group, and I loved how much Quinn loved them. Morgan does a remarkable job in creating all of Quinn’s relationships and I was invested in all these bonds: the devotion to her friends; her complicated love for her brother; her romance with Kennedy, developed out of their intense friendship when they were younger. Quinn’s romance with Kennedy, however, makes the book – it’s the way they can be both so tender and passionate with each other. Morgan had me invested in all the clichés – first kiss, first love, pining – making me gleefully grin and kick my legs.

Quinn’s first-person point of view pulls you into the raw and heightened emotions of teen angst and drama, and we feel the intensity of all the pressures and conflicts she faces. One thing that slightly puzzles me is the name of the novel: I understand that the book addresses the social cliques in a high school and how Quinn and Kennedy come from different cliques, but I found the exploration of popularity less immediate and compelling in the novel, and was much more invested in the other themes Morgan explores.

What was much more interesting to me was how Morgan also explores the importance of having time to yourself, of knowing when to be a bit selfish, to be the healthiest mentally and emotionally you can be. Morgan’s All the Worlds Between Us is a reminder to enjoy your summer with yourself and your friends.
Morgan’s school presents modern life: most people are tolerant at her school and accept LGBT+ people, and this is true for many people, but Morgan also recognises how this is not the truth for many others. The book celebrates queerness, celebrates the kids who have “lived in the shadows” during high school.

Morgan’s novel reiterates the important fact which should be repeated over and over again that coming out should always be done on one’s own terms, and how this isn’t a thing that any other people, straight or queer, should decide. In this book, one of the main characters gets outed and painfully voices how being outed is not like coming out at all, but like feeling exposed, even if it to a group of liberal, accepting people.

Overall, All the Worlds Between Us is a fantastic debut and I will be picking up whatever Morgan Lee Miller writes next.

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I was given a prepublication copy of this book by Netgalley in return for an honest review.

Quinn is something of a swimming prodigy, but having failed to make it to the Olympics, she is still piecing her confidence back together and is now aiming for the World Championships. She cannot let herself become distracted by anything or anyone, no matter how pretty they are.

At high school everyone knows about Quinn's sexuality but her best friend deserted her when she moved away and since coming back their relationship has been non existent. Kennedy Reed won't even look at Quinn, let alone have a conversation with her and Quinn is unsure why. Go back to when they were 13 and Kennedy was about to move away and a kiss between them on the front porch of Kennedy's house and the story starts to unwind.

To add to the confusion, there is also the relationship between Quinn and her twin brother Liam, who also has a massive crush of Kennedy, and the problems that creates.

The story is good, it talks about different relationships, prom and who invites who, as well as following Quinn through her rigorous training programme and seeing what she sacrifices in order to get where she wants to be. It also portrays the mixed emotions of coming out, (Kennedy) that many teenagers must go through, how to break it to their friends and family and the emotions of keeping a relationship secret, so that no one finds out.

For young adults and teenagers I think that this would be a great read, not only for those going through similar situations but also for others to understand and empathise and have a better understanding of what some people go through.

This is the first LGBT Young adult fiction I have read, and even though I enjoyed it it didn't grab me like many books do. (Hence it's taken me a while to get through it!) I liked the storyline and the characters, but I feel the pace of the book was just too slow for my liking.

I gave it 3 stars on Goodreads.

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