- I picked up AZAR ON FIRE on a whim from my library and I'm so glad I did. I think this might be one of my favorite YA books of all time. Azar is a great protagonist: driven, smart, sharp, and a little bitter. The friends she gathers around herself are equally wonderful, both fighting their own battles and helping Azar through hers.
- This book perfectly captures the pressures and awkwardness of high school - I went to school in the same place this book is set and WHEW there were some flashbacks!
- I'm not disabled or chronically ill so I'm not the final word here, but I liked how Azar and her family were constantly trying to find the balance between fixing Azar's condition and simply learning to live with it, and how neither route seemed like the perfect answer.
- Plus, this book's characters are effortlessly diverse in terms of race, religion, class, and queerness. We love surprise asexual spectrum rep!