January Mid-Month Wrap Up | 2021

i thought that this was a good start i thought that the author's writing was very well done it is written in second person so i will say that may be an element that some readers are not used to and i can definitely understand how i could take the reader out of the story but i do at the same time understand what the author was going for in writing it in second person

i did enjoy the artwork i loved the family dynamic that is mentioned in this book i think that he had a lot of fun this just was a great way for him to reiterate the importance of just wanting to be yourself and knowing that it's okay to be yourself and enjoy what you want to enjoy and love what you want to love

i really enjoyed it i wasn't a huge fan of the art i like artwork and picture books and this is just a personal preference it's not going to lessen your enjoyment of the actual text and the story itself

it covers a lot of different topics especially performative activism and allyship which are probably the highlights for me and then also the difference between being a part of a marginalized group where you can hide your marginalizations and being a part of a marginalized group where you can't hide your marginalizations

this is a quick read i think that it's really fast-paced it was just well written well thought out i think that it like i said to sass faces a page turner

overall i just thought that this was a very well done book and one that i didn't expect to enjoy as much as i thought i was going to enjoy like some of the content is dark but i was really invested in their relationship and denise williams really did a good job of that

i think that this is a very important and informative picture book that lets you know just a glimpse of what it was like for these students to go to these residential schools

this book could have been another like it could have been two to three hundred pages less than what it was i think there was a certain point in which the novel definitely could have reached a final like conclusion but it just kind of kept going so i know that for a lot of people it just kind of drew the experience out but i stuck with it and i really did like it

i did end up really enjoying this one i gave it four stars i think that this is a great gateway if you're starting to read more science fiction

i read something by jessica last year which was his middle grade book this skeleton man which was so creepy still questioning how that was a middle grade book but whatever

this one was absolutely phenomenal this was my first five star read for 2021 and i love this one because the way that it was structured is that we got flashbacks of malcolm x's life as he was in prison and he was going through this process of literally awakening himself and going back to the roots that his family specifically his mom and his dad had instilled in him in learning what it meant to truly be a black man in america

i think that nikki sloan is a good writer in terms of plot i think that she can write a plot in the craziest ways i think that her creativity and what she's able to come up with is something that i will admire i just am not a huge fan of her characterization

they were absolutely amazing i don't want to say too much about them because they are volumes 3 and volume 4 within the series

volume four ended on such a huge cliffhanger because that is the volume in which we officially get the first clue for the first like apostle line and it literally is just a description that came to mind when his father drank this specific wine so it's crazy the way that it ended because i was like what that's it

i started the first book and i thought oh my gosh this is just going to be a another plain jane romance where we have a girl fall in love with the bad boy who has money they both have money whatever and i was like this is just going to be dry i was very wrong

i think that nikki sloan is a good writer in terms of plot i think that she can write a plot in the craziest ways i think that her creativity and what she's able to come up with is something that i will admire i just am not a huge fan of her characterization

i think that the jokes were better in the first volume than they were this one i still enjoyed it there were some moments that i laughed

great book i actually haven't even worked it as read on goodreads yet but definitely a five-star read for me i really enjoyed it i think it had a lot to say i think it taught me a lot and i hope more people have picked this one up