⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (4 stars)

Well, folks, we’ve officially reached cruising altitude, and Sky Daddy by Kate Folk has me questioning everything I thought I knew about love, life, and… planes? Yes, planes. Sexy, sleek, aerodynamic hunks of metal with “intelligent windscreens” and fuselages that’ll make you blush. Buckle up—this one’s a wild ride.

Linda, our fearless heroine, leads a life that’s just normal enough to fly under the radar. But behind her windowless garage door (because of course she lives in a windowless garage), she’s harboring a secret obsession: she’s in love with planes. Not the kind of “I love traveling” love. No, Linda’s love for planes is intimate, spiritual, and—let’s just say it—freaky.

Every month, she hops on a flight, not for the destination, but for the date. With the plane. The actual plane. Things escalate when she decides her ultimate destiny is to “marry” her soulmate plane in the most dramatic way possible—by dying in a crash together. Because nothing says happily ever after like eternal combustion.

Kate Folk’s writing is razor-sharp, brilliantly weird, and so hilariously deadpan that I laughed out loud more times than I’d care to admit. But beyond the absurd premise, there’s a surprising amount of heart here. Linda’s struggle to reconcile her love for something she can’t share with anyone feels both deeply relatable and completely unhinged. It’s a love story about embracing what makes us weird—and let’s face it, we’re all a little weird, just maybe not Linda weird.

Thank you to Kate Folk, Random House, and NetGalley for letting me board this absolutely bonkers flight. If you’ve ever wondered what Her would look like if Joaquin Phoenix fell in love with a Boeing 737, this book is your ticket. Just don’t read it in public unless you’re okay with people asking why you’re snorting into your Kindle.

This was unlike any book I've ever read. Definitely outside of my comfort zone, but I have to say it was quick, light, and funny. For the premise, it was well done.

I enjoyed every minute of this wild ride with delulu Linda. Folk’s writing is reminiscent of Miranda July or Melissa Broder with a touch of the Molly Shannon film Superstar. Folk’s prose is sharp, fresh, and most of all hysterical. I’ll be thinking about this for a long time.

Hilarious, wild and audacious. At the core of the oddest characters that we see is a relatable human just looking for connection in this strange life that we live. I love the bizarre books that keep my brain tripping out.

I’ve never read anything quite like this?? I started on the plane home and it was the perfect plane book. Very easy to read, funny, not too heavy.

I loved the darkish humor. So many quotes that stood out and made me laugh. I loved Linda, even though she could say and do very unusual things at times. I loved her friendship with Karina and Simon too. Also I think I want to start a VBB🤣

I’d recommend to readers looking for a light fiction book that isn’t a romance. I will never look at a plane and not think of this book. 4.25

I am sure this will do well because the premise is so outrageous, and I applaud the very fact that a whole book is committed to the bit.

But there was something about the urbane matter-of-factness about the tone of the protagonist's plane fetish that felt sanitized and a little hollow to me, lab-grown to be "craaazy" and unhinged. It's amusing, and the details and research are there, but the content moderation job and assorted setting felt like things I'd read before.

5 stars

What?! To think Folk named her last book Out There. This one is just as bonkers, if not more so. This girl gave me so much second hand anxiety. Every choice she made was choosing violence. At the heart it’s a story about friendship, jobs that shouldn’t get your energy, and men that can go right in the trash. Why do I know a dude exactly like Dave? The writing is unhinged in the best possible way, Folk really takes a concept and goes for it. I am here for every second for it- the ending made me gasp and read it four times. I need this book to come out so I have people to talk to!

Thanks to the publisher, NetGalley, and the author for an advanced copy to form opinions from.

I was immediately amused by Linda and loved the whole of this story. The first part of the book did loose my interest a bit when things didn't develop for while, but then parts 2, 3, and the ending made this a four star for me!

If someone made a book out of the Ryanair tiktok stitch with that bad TikTok actress lipsynching Fleabag’s ‘I’m not going to flirt with him.’

Incredible. So much fun.

A hilarious and unexpectedly tender story about a woman's desire to be with a plane, both romantically and sexually. This was laugh-out-loud funny at times, sweetly wholesome at others, and subversively dark overall.

Linda is secretly obsessed with planes and believes that one day she will meet the right plane for her that will take the ultimate plunge and marry her. Her coworker invites her to a vision board party where she tries to manifest meeting her dream plane. Slowly, she opens herself up to revealing her authentic self and desires.

This felt like a combination of Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata, We Had to Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets, and The Secret by Rhonda Byrne mixed with the dark humor and unhinged characters of a Melissa Broder novel. It was everything I wanted it to be and more.

Recommended for fans of Melissa Broder, Ottessa Mosfegh, Sayaka Murata, Mona Awad

This was so entertaining, so odd, and so up my alley. I loved every second of it. 5 stars

Thank you to NetGalley for an advance copy of this in exchange for an honest review.

When the author of NIGHTBITCH praises something for being weird, you know it’s going to be good.

There’s no shortage of weirdness in this satire with a catchy title. Our main character, Linda, has a secret. She is aroused by planes and believes her destiny is to die in a crash, attaching her to the aircraft forever.

There are some shocking and hilarious scenes in this novel. Some of the conversations are so uncomfortable, my heart pounded through my chest on each page. I tore through my advanced reader copy, desperate to know how this all ends. I am as obsessed with this book as Linda is with planes … but not in that way.

The author certainly knows how to pull a reader in. Bravo.

Witty and engaging “Moby-Dick as plane” story with a weirdly sympathetic cast of characters. I couldn’t put it down - I loved the writing and all of the weirdness and what it said about identity, loneliness, and friendship.

So I don't know what I thought this was going to be. The title is the new nickname for a religious entity on social media. However, I was pleasantly surprised

I loved this book!!! So much!!!

Kate Folk is a singular talent. If you loved her stories, you'll love SKY DADDY, about a woman attracted to airplanes, her job as a content moderator, the role vision boards play in helping her get close to marrying a plane. It's hilarious and absurd and I ate it all up.

Can't wait for whatever Folk does next.

"Sky Daddy" might be the best novel I've read in the last 10 years. I read a lot of books each year, and even though I enjoy most of what I read, I must admit, there's not much variety or uniqueness. "Sky Daddy" is by far the most unique novel by a mile! Wow. I am familiar with Kate Folk. I devoured her short story collection, "Out There" a few years ago, and have been eagerly awaiting her first novel ever since. This book is zany, hilarious, poignant, eccentric, heartwarming, and of course unique to the bone. It's so refreshing to read something that I can't compare to anything else. This book is pretty much perfection. I don't think there's anything I would change; the ending was mind-blowing! The characters are so multi-dimensional. I loved Linda, Karina, and Dave and even delightfully annoying Simon. The dialogue is razor-sharp, and the prose is superb. Kate Folk is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors. She is the real deal. I had no idea I would love a novel about a woman who is obsessed/sexually attracted to airplanes! This novel is a bombshell. Holy smokes, what a wild ride!

Thank you, Netgalley and Random House for the digital ARC.

Yes, this is a book about a woman who is sexually attracted to airplanes. And yes, she does hope to one day "marry" a commuter jet by dying in a plane crash. BUT, this is also about so much more (I mean of course it is)! Sky Daddy is a wonderfully absurd and bizarre novel about friendship, chasing your dreams, finding acceptance, and the power of vision boards. I basically loved the entire unique experience of reading this book, right up until its satisfying ending.

I was a big fan of Kate Folk's short story collection Out There, so I couldn't wait to read this book. I mean, technically, I could wait because I saved this novel until I was on vacation so I could read the whole thing with minimal interruption. Thankfully, Sky Daddy more than delivered. While this probably won't be for everyone - I mean just read the synopsis and decide for yourself - I honestly can't wait for more people to spend time with Linda and her airplanes. More than that, I can't wait to see what Folk writes next.

i mean it literally did completely meet my expectations based on my prior knowledge of the book, but i think it was truly maybe just too absurdist for me since i prefer my fiction rooted in reality. i would definitely give this author another chance though!

I couldn’t wait to read *Sky Daddy* by Kate Folk, as it fits perfectly into my favorite genre: weird, hilarious contemporary. When I was approved for an ARC, I devoured it immediately! This book is one of those rare gems that you just can’t put down—you have to fly through it because it’s that hilarious and addictive, with every page pulling you deeper into its unhinged brilliance. Folk captures female friendship, acceptance, and the beauty of embracing one’s “weirdness” in a way that’s both refreshing and deeply relatable. This novel has everything I love: humor, heart, and the perfect dash of chaos.

If you combine Molly the Maid with the guy on My Strange Addiction that loves cars a bit too much, you get Linda. Linda is weird as could be, and says some ridiculous things. This book is really funny and light. The book tells the story of Linda wanting to find love in probably the most odd way but finding friendship in someone who pushes Linda to find herself.
Overall, this is a book I would recommend, especially if you liked Molly the Maid!

I loved the show my strange addiction and I could see the main character being on that show!! This book was so out there and unique, in a good way! The author did an amazing job executing this book and It was way better than I expected.