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“A strong, well-written female protagonist sets this coming-of-age novel apart.”
— Kirkus Reviews
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“Quick creates beautifully well-rounded characters.”
— Booklist
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Any listener interested in a coming of age story with a difference will fine Every Exquisite Thing makes for a powerful saga.
— California Bookwatch/Midwest Book Review
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Every Exquisite Thing lives up to the hype...You're going to wish you could follow Quick's awesome heroine Nanette for another 500 pages or so when you get to the end.
— Bustle.com
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* "Quick continues to excel at writing thought-provoking stories about nonconformity.... [and] paints a compelling portrait of a sympathetic teenager going through the trial-and-error process of growing up.
— Publishers Weekly, starred review
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* "Like the many anticonformity books before it, this will find a dedicated audience among teen readers.
— School Library Journal, starred review
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Quick's story will speak to teenage eccentrics: loners, rebels, and creative types; the kind to follow Booker's suggestions to read Bukowski and Neruda; those ripe for transformation.
— Horn Book
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A strong, well-written female protagonist sets this coming-of-age novel apart.
— Kirkus Reviews
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Quick creates beautifully well-rounded characters, particularly Nanette, whose first-person narrative, rich with wry observations and a kaleidoscope of meaningful emotions, offers great insight into the mind of a teen on a sometimes sluggish, spiraling path toward sorting herself out.
— Booklist
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[Quick] will give readers lots to chew on as they join Nanette in sorting out angst from general privileged malaise.
— The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books