Beautifully written, heart breakingly realistic.

This read like a Hallmark movie to me (which I enjoy, btw), so while entertaining that characters had some major flaws.

This book is weirdly written with bizarre characters and with more "hidden imagery" than it knows what to do with. I struggled to get through this as the writing is convoluted and seems to be trying to be cool and innovative in way that just makes me want to put the book down.

A retelling of Snow White, this is not. Beyond having a character named Snow and more mirror imagery than a funhouse, there is very little to do the tale of Snow White at all.

The characters are weird, the situations the author puts them in are strange and not realistic, and the dialogue and thoughts are straight up ridiculous.

And then on top of all of that, the author had the nerve to take a complete left turn and surprise us with a Transphobic ending that literally came out of no where.

Throw the whole book away. I would not ever read another book by this author.

I read this book to try to help myself figure out why I always feel the need to be helpful to everyone, even when they aren't asking for it, but more in physical sense, but this was more about being a good listener which is actually not a problem I have.

I'm more of a "someone is having a hard time figuring out why their printer isn't working and I'm the first to jump up and offer to help them fix it" or a "even though I don't know this person that well, I'm going to give them this gift because I like giving people things" type of person.

As in I help too much, I'm a giver by nature and I was trying to figure out why I feel the need to be constantly helpful and reliable, this book did not help with that.

However I did learn some more listening techniques, and how to be better in conversation when listening and validating people feelings, so it wasn't a complete waste.

Just keep in mind that this is an older book and is also told through a lens of an obviously religious person.

A very nice intro to the orisha for anyone that is knowledge seeker.

Not exactly what I thought it was going to be but not bad either. It did remind of somethings that I need to get back into but not exactly the type of book I enjoy reading. I prefer more of a knowledge based book an subjects like these and this felt more like story telling.

Picked this up at a local Goodwill and thought I'd give it chance, now I see why it was given away in the first place.

This book was a struggle to get through and considering it is written in verse, you would think I would have had an easier time reading it.

None of the characters are interesting, believable, or fully fleshed out. None of the situations are realistic, and the ending was so out of left field, abrupt, and pointless that I wish I would left this book right on the Goodwill shelf for some other poor shopper to take.

The romance is flat, the dialogue is incredibly hard to follow and not realistic, the characters seem like caricatures of people instead actual fleshed out characters, and the surprise police brutality ending that came out of no where made this a very unenjoyable read.

Honestly, jus skip this one.

This was a fun read on a subject I have yet to delve into fully so it was a sort of introductory for me. Overall I like the information that was given but I something about didn't connect with me and felt off.

This is not what I thought it was going to be. Like most "self-help" type of books this could have been shortened by at least two thirds and it would have been much more enjoyable and less repetitive.

I don't get the need to be super repetitive in books like this, also this doesn't actually speak about the art of stopping, it speaks about the art of taking mini-breaks in your day, not really what I was looking for in terms of content for book about stopping.

Overall the information is pretty basic and could have easily been an article or a blog post even, the content did not warrant an entire book.

3.5 - This was a very cute YA novel, and an enjoyable read.

I love the way Renee Watson writes flawed characters that are relatable, fully fleshed out, and real. She has a way of making flawed characters still likable.
While I really love the main character and her grandmother, I wish we had seen more of her friend and that the romance wasn't so flat for me. I wish the romance wasn't such a big part of the book and that her bestfriend could have taken up have the page time that her romance did, but overall I enjoyed this book.