God I loved this book as much as the first. Emezi is an incredible world builder, character creator, and writer. Bitter, a young Black artist who finds her first family at her art school suffers severe anxiety while existing in a world not unlike ours, one that brutally harms and kills Black people and those who protest and act against existing structures like racism, capitalism, and dictatorship that oppress people. Bitter and her people are courageous and headstrong and when Bitter and her classmates' art comes to life they seek vengeance and will use the same methods of the powerful to punish the powerful, but the group of young activists know there are more just ways to accountability. I cannot wait to be a librarian to put this book in my students' hands.