"This Quiet Sky" by Joanne Bischof

About this book:

  “There is nothing extraordinary about Tucker O’Shay’s dreams. Go to college. Become president. Fall in love. And pretend like he has enough time to get it all done.
  Sixteen-year-old Sarah Miller doesn’t expect anything out of the ordinary when she begins her first day at the one-room-school house in her new hometown of Rocky Knob. But when she meets seventeen-year-old Tucker O’Shay—the boy with the fatal illness who volunteers to tutor her in algebra—she finds herself swept up in a friendship that changes the way she sees the world and a love that changes her life.”


Series: Connected to another series by the author.


Spiritual Content- A Scripture is read and mentioned a few times (not recognized as a Scripture, however); Talks about God & asking Him questions; ‘H’s are capital when referring to God; Sarah gets mad at God at a point, but gets better; Mentions of God; Mentions of prayers & blessings over food; Mentions of churches & sermons; Mentions of Christmas songs; A few mentions of events in the Bible; A couple mentions of Bibles; A couple mentions of blessings; A couple mentions of sins; A mention of a book of the Bible; A mention of the sermon on the Mount; A mention of church mice; A mention of a hymn.

Negative Content- Minor cussing including: a form of ‘suckered’ and two ‘drat’s; Mentions of deaths; A couple mentions of a husband abusing his wife; A couple mentions of cheating; A couple mentions of sarcasm.

Sexual Content- a finger kiss, a hand kiss, a cheek kiss, two head/hair kisses, two barely-above-not-detailed kisses, four detailed kisses, a very detailed kiss; Remembering a kiss (semi-detailed); Touches, Nearness, Brushes, Heat/Warmth, & Tingles (semi-detailed); Noticing, Staring, & Butterflies (up to semi-detailed); Mentions of (and talks about) kisses & kissing; Mentions of flirting, blushes, & talking to the opposite gender; A few mentions of (being married and) feeling a husband’s skin and waking up next to him; A couple mentions of impropriety; A couple mentions of Maggie and her admirers; A mention of a man cornering Sarah; A mention of an attempted “necking” that resulted in the man being slapped; Love, falling in love, & the emotions;

             *Note: Sarah’s parents were 14 & 19 when they married; A few mentions of Sarah saying she has no curves & later on the curves that she gets; A few mentions of a cancer that only men get (details are never named).

-Sarah Miller, age 16
                                1^st person P.O.V. of Sarah

                                      Set in 1885 (Epilogue in 1903)
                                                        149 pages

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My personal Rating-

I was hoping to enjoy this one due to it being a Historical YA (something we don’t see too often) but, unfortunately, the sexual content was so much. The touchy and kissy parts are just too much for me to feel comfortable with reading—especially since this is supposed to be a Young Adult book.

See y’all on Friday with a new review!

*BFCG may (Read the review to see) recommend this book by this author. It does not mean I recommend all the books by this author.