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Actual rating: 3.5 stars
A super fun and sweet read. The sweetness near the end almost made me cry.
A super fun and sweet read. The sweetness near the end almost made me cry.
My favorite of the short stories is Désirée’s Baby. It is the first story that appears in this collection.
“Late into the night I write and the pages of my notebook swell from all the words I’ve pressed onto them. It almost feels like the more I bruise the page the quicker something inside me heals.”
The Poet X is one of two books I’ve ever read that spoke volumes of my soul. I related to Xiomara’s experience so much that my heart ached and tears spilled down my cheeks.
The story is about an Afro-Latina girl from Harlem who writes poetry to express her thoughts and feelings about her family, question religion, explore sexuality, and experience the many firsts for a sixteen year-old girl. For the majority of the novel, Xiomara is caught between her Mami’s weighty cultural/religious expectations of what a good girl should be and what she wants to be.
The amount of rawness portrayed within the pages of this book is just ...phenomenal. Elizabeth Acevedo explores and navigates through Latinx topics that are often left in shadows. I appreciate and commend her for it, and I honestly cannot wait to see what else she has in store for the world! There aren’t enough stars for this book so I give it the entire sky!
Original Reaction:
ALL THE STARS.
MY HEART WAS BROKEN AND PUT BACK TOGETHER IN A SPAN OF A DOZEN PAGES.
*will review when I am more coherent and not so in my FEELS*
The Poet X is one of two books I’ve ever read that spoke volumes of my soul. I related to Xiomara’s experience so much that my heart ached and tears spilled down my cheeks.
The story is about an Afro-Latina girl from Harlem who writes poetry to express her thoughts and feelings about her family, question religion, explore sexuality, and experience the many firsts for a sixteen year-old girl. For the majority of the novel, Xiomara is caught between her Mami’s weighty cultural/religious expectations of what a good girl should be and what she wants to be.
The amount of rawness portrayed within the pages of this book is just ...phenomenal. Elizabeth Acevedo explores and navigates through Latinx topics that are often left in shadows. I appreciate and commend her for it, and I honestly cannot wait to see what else she has in store for the world! There aren’t enough stars for this book so I give it the entire sky!
Original Reaction:
ALL THE STARS.
MY HEART WAS BROKEN AND PUT BACK TOGETHER IN A SPAN OF A DOZEN PAGES.
*will review when I am more coherent and not so in my FEELS*
Absolutely stunning and honest. Emergency Contact makes you feel all the FEELS. I love the complexity of Sam and Penny, who are two souls who find one another in a world that has made them grow up too fast. Their budding friendship is GOALS.
I also loved the themes that were present in the novel as they are current in our political climate. This novel is so refreshing, and I loved every bit of it.
P.S. I read 80% of book in one day.
P.P.S. I need to write a full length review.
I also loved the themes that were present in the novel as they are current in our political climate. This novel is so refreshing, and I loved every bit of it.
P.S. I read 80% of book in one day.
P.P.S. I need to write a full length review.
