Color Me In brought up a lot of really great issues regarding racism and colorist. It also was very accurate to the experience of growing up in New York City (I especially liked how Stevie and Nevaeh had their coffee orders on lock since fifth grade because that’s so true). Nevaeh’s poetry felt a lot like it was written by a teenager and made her feel more real to me. Most of the characters I really liked, especially Corinne’s entire side of the family and Jesus. The biggest problems I had were that some of the characters felt like stereotypes (especially her dad’s relatives) and that Abby and her family were so cartoonishly evil. I feel like this book would have been better if they had more nuance. Overall, this is an interesting, quick, own voices YA read that starts an important conversation. Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC.