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Cover love at first sight😍

Full of strength & heart, with stylistic similarities to Elizabeth Acevedo. Brown‘s semi-autobiographical narrative, about rising from poverty & trauma (with whimsy intact & keen intersectional insight), is at its most effective when she weaves her voice in with the speeches of other characters, alternating fluidly between perspectives & timelines. The choice to write in the first-person, present-tense, however, was not my favorite & it felt long.

A semi autobiographical book with magical realism. While it dealt with tough topics like drug abuse, domestic violence, and rape I enjoyed the book.

I'm torn. I loved many aspects of this, but really struggled with the magical realism. Not many authors do it well. It felt a little all over the place. Still, there are some beautiful, powerful parts.

YA fiction that is very autobiographical. I listened to the audiobook which is read by the author and she does a good job. There are several instances where two scenes are happening in parallel and the switching back and forth was hard to follow when listening.

Heartbreaking at times but hopeful and full of wisdom.

I don‘t have the words....💔❤️

You‘ll root for Echo Brown (character) and thank Echo Brown (author) for this amazing coming of age story. Have your Kleenex handy while reading.

*triggers for poverty, sexual violence, drug use, racism, sexism, and depression

#CoverLove #YA #YABook #ComingOfAge

Something told me to pick this one off the shelf yesterday and I‘m so glad it did. I don‘t think I‘ve ever read anything like it and as triggering as this was for me in many areas, I couldn‘t put it down. I don‘t know if I have all the words in me to say how I appreciative I am to have read this and how seen I felt, but this is now my favorite read of the year so far. 😌

And the wizarding lessons sprinkled throughout? I REALLY needed those!!

This book is out now, and I never heard of it until I went looks for more books by Black Authors. It has a stunning cover. Lets make it sell out.

YA - Out Now

#CoverLove
#BlackLivesMatter
#BlackAuthors
#BlackoutTuesday

I‘m trying to expand my reading outside of solely fiction, and this one caught my eye not just from the beautiful cover, but the combination of autobiography and magical realism.

In all of the rereads I‘ve done of the Harry Potter series, I‘ve always wondered what it‘d be like to have a story focused on a black wizard - now it looks like I might finally get that answer!

#tbrtuesday

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