This is a tear-jerker of a book from the get go. So, be warned and get some tissues before-hand. If you have read a Dani Atkins review before though, you might already be prepared. Her stories always touch your heart in more ways than you might like but she always manages to leave you with a good feeling about life and looking forward to a bright future. And A Sky Full of Starts is no different in this sense.

I found the whole premise very interesting and I enjoyed reading about all the characters who end up related to the main character, Ben. Plus, as the story is also told from another character's perspective we get to see the story from different angles and really get to understand how the story unfolds and how the characters are feeling and reacting.

I really don't want to give anything else away but I do want to mention that I loved the connection to the stars and the space. So a fully recommended read from Dani Atkins for me!

I always love reading books by Dani Atkins, they're always moving and full of emotion. This book was the same. This time the story focused on organ donation and the lives you can touch and change forever when you donate your organs. Full of emotion, I found it very moving and beautifully written.

I must firstly apologise for the amount of time it has taken me to provide a review of this book, my health was rather bad for quite some time, something that had me in hospital on numerous occasions and simply didnt leave me with the time I once had to do what I love most.

Unfortunately that does mean I have missed the archive date for many of these books, so It would feel unjust throwing any review together without being able to pay attention to each novel properly.

However, I am now back to reading as before and look forward to sharing my honest reviews as always going forward. I thank you f0r the patience and understanding throughout x

Beautifully written; this book is incredibly moving, totally heartbreaking and yet also strangely uplifting. I’ve read a few by this author and she definitely knows how to pack an emotional punch! Well worth a read if you like a weepy book.

This was a brilliant read and is being featured on my blog for my quick star reviews feature, which I have created on my blog so I can catch up with all the books I have read and therefore review.
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A Sky Full of Stars is a booknpacked with emotional depth and lessons in love and grief. I adore this author and they keep getting better and better. Alex is left heartbroken and destroyed when his young beautiful wife and mother to his young son dies tragically in a train crash. Adhering to her wishes to donate her organs he wants to meet the recipients of her organs. What follows is natural yet a disturbing at times relationship with the four people that received his wife Lisa's organs. Is Alex moving on or is he holding on to the past. A brilliant story of true love, tragic grief and recovery through the ultimate gift.

Lisa, Alex and Connor make a beautiful family. When Lisa gets ill, their world changes. When she passes away, everything Alex and Connor know know about life with her dies too.

Can Alex bring up Connor alone?

Dani Atkins writes truly stand-out, beautiful novels and the pacing is always relaxing and gripping no matter what the subject matter and plots. There are hard choices and life lessons.

I loved Fractured and A Million Dreams, but so far A Sky Full of Stars has to be the most heartbreaking. It's gripping heart-wrenching and truly unforgettable.

Thanks to Dani Atkins and Aria & Aries for my ARC in exchange for an honest and voluntary review.

5 sparkling stars.

In readiness for the “heart-breaking love story”, I made sure I was prepared for this one – no mascara, tissues in easy reach – and I will admit I was sobbing from fairly close to the start. There’s a glimpse of the small family and their life filled with love and happiness – but when wife and mother (and astronomer) Lisa heads off to London for an conference, she’s involved in a tragic accident and leaves husband Alex and young son Connor struggling to face life without her. Their immense grief and sense of loss is just perfectly captured – with Alex desperately trying to be both father and mother to a child who refuses to believe that she won’t be returning.

But life moves on, and this becomes a story of afterwards – and of the four people who have the strongest of reasons to be grateful to Lisa after her death. Against all the rules, Alex decides to meet them all, and their lives become intertwined – and the story follows them all into the future, as they find their own ways forward.

The story is told from the viewpoints of Alex himself – always a sad figure, but driven by a whole range of emotions associated with the part Lisa played in the lives of this group of strangers – and Molly, a primary school teacher who engages particularly well with six-year-old Connor while negotiating her own problems and challenges. Every single character in this book is exceptionally well-drawn and likeable, easy to identify with, their different challenges making wonderful reading, with that balance of joy and heartbreak that the author does so very well. The relationships between them all are beautifully handled, as is the character development – when I read my last book from the author, I mentioned “reading with your heart”, and it’s most certainly how I felt about this one too. And as well as the developing relationships between the strangers, there are other relationships that add richness and depth – particularly Alex’s closeness to brother Todd, always there with a hug of support and the wise advice Alex doesn’t want to hear, and Molly’s relationship with her mother.

This is a book filled with moments – there are a few that make me fill up when I think about them, but others are moments of lightness and sheer joy that make you feel filled with love and can’t help but bring a smile. The book is perfectly judged at an emotional level – but there’s far more to this book than the sense of hope it leaves you with and the tears you’ll shed. There’s a lot of light humour too, and a touch of romance – and a few moments of considerable drama, beautifully balanced with that day-to-day detail of people’s ordinary lives that had me entirely invested in its characters. The issues the book raises are always sensitively handled, all wrapped around a compelling and enthralling story that breaks your heart but slowly pieces it together again.

I thoroughly enjoyed every moment of this wonderful book – the story-telling is superb, the book’s impact is stunning, and I’d very strongly recommend it to others.

When wife and mum Lisa dies in a tragic accident, husband Alex and young son Connor are distraught. Alex is even more shocked when he discovers that Lisa was an organ donor and contrives to make friends out of the four recipients. Despite all the sadness and pathos it was a very easy read and not at all depressing. The cover was fantastic and a great eye grabber. My one complaint is why were nearly all the characters almost perfect, especially Lisa and it seemed the woman could do no wrong! The subject matter (grief) was heavy but written in a light hearted way so no one should need too many tissues. Also it was a bit on the lengthy side but it was an engaging read and most people will enjoy it.

This is an unforgettable story of love and loss and how and if you can ever move on.
The writing was beautiful and so heart wrenching.
This book really hits you in the feels and really squeezes your heart.
Highly highly recommend this book. It is a must read for all

This was a beautifully written and poignant read. I am a huge fan of Dani Atkins and this was probably my favourite. A heart breaking story line with loveable characters and I'm sure this book will stay with me for some time.

Highly recommended and well deserves 5 stars.

Thank you Head of Zeus and Netgalley.

This is one of the most heartfelt books I have ever read and if you ever go through organ donation in any context then please read this book.

A happy family of three before the mother is taken from them far too early, how do they get over this. The story follows the lives of them plus three other people, the recipients of the organs. You will go through many emotions reading this but it is superbly written by a very talented best-selling author. How do they all recover, do you ever recover? As you think of a question it’s like Dani knew as then the story deals with it.

This is an unforgettable story , the author broke my heart but managed to put it back together again with humour. A story of loss & grieving , but also of the good that come out on the other side. The story does get lighter as it progresses and is a beautiful read, restoring your faith in humanity. Absolutely stunning read.

Thanks to netgalley and the publisher for a free copy for an honest opinion

Another bestseller from Dani Atkins. All her books are so beautifully written & make the reader familiar with all the characters right from the first page. This one was an unforgettable story of loss & sad times, but also of the good that come out on the other side

Dani Atkins' books always turn me into an emotional wreck and this one was no different! Her writing is powerful and so intense and never shies away from difficult subjects, in this case organ donation.
I started crying from the very first chapter, as you could tell what was coming when the day to day routine was playing out in Alex & Lisa's kitchen. Reading on you could feel the raw emotion that Alex was going through as he searched for Lisa & I personally found the transplant scenes very hard to read having received a transplant myself from a deceased donor. I had to at times put the book down for a few minutes to compose myself.
The story does get lighter and is a wonderful read, restoring faith in human kindness and relationships.
All the time I was reading the book I had the Coldplay song with the same title in my head and I think this book would definitely make an amazing TV drama or film.

The most brilliant author of these times. The queen of heartbreaking yet life affirming emotions, author Dani Atkins again managed to break my heart into slivers filled with tears and laughter and patch it back again with love.

Lisa and Alex with Connor – a perfect family where they loved each other deeply. Alex was just 6 when one day on the way to the astronomy fair, the train had a crash, and Lisa was brain dead. Then Alex met 4 strangers, and their life story helped him to understand a fate that was full of stars of hope.

Every word in this book was precious. Every word spoke to the cells of my heart. Every word carried forth its emotions, evoking tears and smiles in me. From the blurb, it was easy to understand what the story was all about.

But the journey into the prose was an experience. Nothing could have stopped me from reading this. Told in dual POV, the story told me the tough lives all the characters have had in this book. It was heartening to see them find their hope, and through them for Alex and little Connor to start living.

I cried big, fat tears. I read the prose choked up. My heart was crushed and slowly, like the other characters, I began living again, looking up at stars as they are our past and our future.

I love Dani Atkins books. The first one she wrote has stayed with me for years so I eagerly look forward to the next one. This one was beautiful. 4 people gain a new life when someone dies and her husband donates some of her organs. He and they become friends tied by a bond. However is it healthy? Is he looking for his wife within these recipients? It was a warm story which I enjoyed it just didn't have the magic that usually occurs in her books,

A heart-wrenching, edge-of-your-seat story as you read along and follow the lives of Alex, his wife Lisa and their son Connor. After the terrible train tragedy that took the life of Lisa, Alex struggles to move on with his son Connor without Lisa in their lives. A heart-warming story as Lisa’s loss of life changes the lives of 4 complete strangers, and brings them close to Connor and Alex.

These 4 strangers come in Alex’s life and changes his life as much as Lisa’s death changed theirs. After heartache and unbearable loss they find comfort in one another and quickly become friends and confidantes. Be sure to have tissues handy, as anyone who has read Dani’s novels before know too well that you will definitely need them!

A enjoyable read that had me flipping the pages until the very end, I highly recommend this novel which is available now!

Another new author for me, and Dani Atkins is one I will most definitely be returning to. A Sky Full of Stars was everything I wanted it to be and more. I thoroughly enjoyed the writing style which I found to be wonderfully engaging and inviting.

Packing an emotional punch from the off, we know from the blurb that Lisa will die suddenly, and this makes that first family scene all the more poignant. The normality of that first chapter really resonated, and as a Mum myself it stirred up all kinds of emotions within me. Recognition, fear, joy, love.

It is after her death that the story really begins, as Alex, struggling to cope with the death of his wife, forms a bond with four strangers whose lives were also completely altered by Lisa’s death.

The events of the novel are told through the eyes of Alex and Molly (one of the strangers) and the author writes both points of view with great sensitivity and care, and their collective view of Connor’s struggles as he grieves the loss of his mother is heartbreaking to observe. But whilst it’s a story about death and grief, it’s also a story about hope. Although gone, Lisa feels to be present throughout and in a world where death is so final, A Sky Full of Stars offers subtle comfort.

I’ll not say much more about the plot, so as not to give anything away – but this was a book I fully invested in. The characters are all so likeable, and the plot – if in certain areas a little predictable, I really didn’t care because I adored the book. It’s an easy read despite the emotional weight, and the ending was pitched perfectly. At a time in life where we feel to have little to no control over our lives, at a time when there feels to be an excess of grief and suffering in many guises, this was a breath of fresh air. To find hope in and amongst the most traumatic of experiences is a beautiful thing.

What an amazing and emotional experience it was to read this book. My heart went out to each and every one of the characters for different reasons.
The story is based on organ donation and the story of the people who received the organs along with the family who lost the donor. How their stories come together is amazing. I love Dani Atkins books as they always reach parts that other books don't. This is not a traditional love story and that makes it all the more appealing. Touching on difficult situations and subjects but in a very delicate and gentle way. Highly recommended this book along with all by this author. Thank you to Netgalley and the publishers and the author for the privilege to read this book for my honest opinion