This book was amazing. I'm not exaggerating and I'm not being extra when I saw that I loved every minute of me listening to this book. The writing was real, raw, relatable, uncomfortable, thought provoking, intense, funny, sad, hurtful, and any other feeling that you could think of. When Xiomara mourned, I mourned. When she was in pain, so was I. When her thoughts and words were jumbles and tumbles of emotion and anger and love and desire and regret, I felt each and every one of those things. I'll be posting a full review on my blog, which I'll link here later, but this was just all around beautiful. I loved the fact that Elizabeth Acevedo narrated this audiobook herself and I think I'll forever associate Xiomara's voice with Elizabeth's. Whether you're poetry/works written in verse or not, I think you'll still love and relate to X's story in one way or another.