First of all, I think this is a genius premise. Lately there have been a lot of great YA books about teen activists (including [b:Watch Us Rise|40025175|Watch Us Rise|Renée Watson|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1544812681l/40025175._SY75_.jpg|57845165] by Renee Watson!)--and I think those are so important because there are so many awesome, admirable teen activists. But this book is about Nala, a teen girl who's annoyed because all of her friends spend all their time doing activism and she just like wants to live her life and watch Netflix and not get yelled at because she doesn't like to carry around heavy reusable water bottles all the dang time.

And honestly I think that's going to resonate with a lot of teens.

It also really stressed me out because when she gets a crush on an activist boy she starts pretending to be more engaged than she really is, and also pretends to be vegetarian when she isn't, and I was like aaaaaa girl aaaa your house of lies is going to collapse any minute now!!!!! So stressful. (But, also, totally the kind of impulsive thing a teen with a crush might do without thinking it through fully.)

Also I love that she's a fat heroine who is not worried that her crush won't like her because of her body, but because she doesn't care enough about the environment.

A really cool, fresh read.