Book Review: Kissing the Sky

Kissing the Sky by Lisa Patton
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

It’s been a long time since a book pulled me in so deeply that it almost hurt to have to set the book aside for such mundane matters as food and sleep. But when Suzannah and Livy set off for Woodstock in the summer of 1969, they took me right along with them.

I’ve said in other reviews that one of my tests of a good book is if it makes me wonder “what happens next” throughout the story. Kissing the Sky went above and beyond. I didn’t wonder, I was compelled to know what happened next, to the point of missing meals and staying up WAY too late.

At 14 years old, I was a bit too young to attend the festival myself back in The Day, so I’ve always been curious about those four days that left such a profound mark on history. Now… I feel like I have been there. I actually feel as if I have memories of Woodstock. That’s how well-researched and wonderfully written this book is.

I won’t tell you details about the plot. It needs to spill over you gradually. You need to experience it “live”. At a certain point you’ll have tipped into this reality so far you will probably forget to come back, until that last page is turned.

Breathtaking. Important. Nostalgic. Bliss. Agony. And really, REALLY, muddy. Go read it right now.