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coolfoolmoon's Reviews (357)

funny lighthearted medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Honestly not enough courting of Samira to me. Much more cousin's wedding talk. Other minor issues: I thought Samira would be sassy / mean based on the cover photo, she wasn't! She was an absolute sweetheart and problem solver! Boo!!! Also! The book says she's blonde hair blue eyes, but the cover shows her with brown eyes. So I gotta take points away since this is a pro brown eye black or brown hair household!!!

Jokes aside, she just like me fr. I'll be on the lookout for Awad's next book, this was great. It was funny and sweet and very informative about Australian culture. Which was surprising. I know more about diaspora Palestinians & Arabs than I did about Australians before reading this! I love the parallels to classic English romance novels, even if I haven't read them I GET it. Awad is a true talent!

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This book has a MAP. And a GLOSSARY. 5 stars for that.

Good lesson for kids but not good enough. Like it's a big deal to talk about racism but in the end
the Black family moves on to the property of the white family, the dad and son both shown to be racist.
That's just unrealistic and an unpolished ending. I'm sure the issues of South Africa, which during this time seemed a lot like America in the 70s, or even America now honestly, couldn't be solved
if white people who lived on stolen land were just like "Sure come hang out on MY property and work for me! Forget about ALL of our history and I won't try to atone for any of it!"
BFFR.

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adventurous challenging hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective relaxing slow-paced

I always have a good time reading poems that rhyme. A lot of poems don't do this anymore so I find them quite the bore. No complaints for this collection, now off to find another selection!

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emotional lighthearted tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Amazing wonderful perfect just like the first one except this one gets less points for attempting to make a love triangle. You'll never make me turn again my baby boy Peter! Nice try! It was cute tho! 

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emotional hopeful informative inspiring tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Immediate Ella Minnow Pea vibes so obviously it was amazing. I love a story for kids that doesn't talk down to them. Like, kids are worthy of respect too even if they don't fully understand what's going on they're still fully capable.

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emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I gotta read more comics by black women. Or at least follow more black female artists. My peoples! This was beautiful! Story's okay/fun.

A joke I'll always make is a parent, a parent of COLOR apologizing for something is so unrealistic... Says more about my life than the book... But sis keeping the Jamaican flag on her at all times? I C O N . That bumped my rating up. 

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hopeful lighthearted medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I first read this probably in 2016, also in one day, and I feel very feral rereading it. Words, the English language, language in general, cannot express or contain the joy I feel. I want to scream at a pitch only perceptible to dolphins. What a great damn near almost perfect story. It's got everything and then some, and more! Lara Jean, she just like me fr!

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challenging dark funny reflective tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

A perfect snapshot of our era (mid 2010s to mid to late 2020s maybe, we'll see) and not just the darkest parts. The girls that get it GET it okay. So nasty. Pure disgust. Utterly vile. I laughed several times. Wonderful amazing book so nasty I love it. Ew. What a great read!

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lighthearted fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Happy month!!! Happy month to all who celebrate! Is Hamal trans? I think so. So cute. The art, the characters; the story was fun but then it started to not take itself so seriously which made me have less fun but I get the feeling this was written by a quirky queer white millenial so I'll give it a pass.

Two petty lil nitpicky things I will mention though: A ghost has glasses? You telling me I die and I still have bad vision? And a year passes at the end and their hair is still the same. One issue I have with comics so far is I don't really feel the passage of time, but changing their hair really would've helped with that.

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informative medium-paced

Great book! Love the history love the explanations and care towards this other religion, something that's usually shamed / ridiculed / disrespected in the Western world. Book included spell work I wasn't interested in for personal magical reasons so I skipped those sections but it is nice to know. Reading this I came to the conclusion I may be child of Oshun, don't know if I have Yoruba ancestry but most likely, so that was also very nice to learn. Worth me looking into it.

Also EEAAO reference before the movie even came out! So cool! (I'm kidding)

Also also I found two typos while reading the book. Don't remember what pages but I mentioned it in my journal entries.

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