March Wrap-Up #1 | It's Been A Chill Month [CC]

I enjoyed it. I think it did need some work in some areas. But for the most part, it was a really, really great book.

This is my first time ever reading anything about America Chavez. And it was good. It was excellent.

This is the same author who wrote Amina's Voice which is one of my favorite middle grade books.

I think that what ended up being a huge mistake in this one was the execution because what we end up seeing is a great premise that's introduced this whole cruise line, someone's trying to destroy it. I think it was a good idea. But the execution was not done well because we never really have a secure line of suspects to follow.

And it was so well done now. Becky had me hooked on Gotham Academy, but then there were some things that she did with Gotham Academy that I did not like so I was super worried when I saw that she was going to be writing sensational Wonder Woman, but it was done so well. I really liked it.

By the time I got to the second issue, it was so depressing because it was like, I can't believe that this is what could potentially happen. And it was so well done now.

Becky had me hooked on Gotham Academy, but then there were some things that she did with Gotham Academy that I did not like so I was super worried when I saw that she was going to be writing sensational Wonder Woman, but it was done so well.

But I think that overall, she just did an excellent job. And this is one that I really, really did end up enjoying.

And I think that this book does a wonderful job, which is an excellent job challenging gender roles. So a lot of conversations about how school dances are set up, and whether they really are truly accessible and enjoyable for every student that participates.

So I really did end up appreciating and loving and really, really enjoying this because you got to watch Jameelah grow, got to see the familial dynamics with the sisters. They're not perfect sisters; they don't get along all the time. But it was very realistic and very, very true, I think to what I've heard so far about Little Women but done in a different and more diverse manner.

And this is really much so like a setup. So you're not getting a lot of answers out of this volume. When you walk into this volume you have questions.

I like The Hate U Give. I adored The Hate U Give when it came out, but we don't need to compare every book to the Hate U Give or Dear Martin.

I ended up giving it 3.5 stars because it felt like there were some elements that could have been developed better. But what it was really, really good for was having conversations about a main character that had a parent that was in the military and that parent had been deployed, and what the emotional effects of that would be like, and how that was a strain on his just his relationship with that parent overall.

It is the chosen one trope, but it was done very well. Like I didn't mind it in this book at all. I think that this is well written.

And then on top of that, I didn't really care for the artwork 100%. It just wasn't clean. I like very clean cut artwork.