Lauren Wade 23.8K subscribers · Jan 19, 2021

The Best Books I Read in 2020!

Reviews11

Black and BritishDavid Olusoga
Loved it

what i absolutely loved about this book is that it's dealing with you know it's a very long book it's dealing with a lot of content but it really managed to marry together the wider context of what was happening at different periods in history with individual stories

it's just so incredible to see how skillful she writes these characters and what i particularly liked about it is that you'll be reading about i don't know a mother a mother character you'll be reading her perspective and the way she thinks about her daughter

but i would say this is such a necessary read and you know maybe it's something where you read one of the essays and then put it away for a little bit and then read another one later on because it can feel quite overwhelming if you read them all in one go

Such a Fun AgeKiley Reid
Loved it

i loved that this was so well written so interesting with the different themes and things that she's there that she's examining but also it was so fun it just read so quickly

The Bass RockEvie Wyld
Loved it

this was just amazing to read one of those books which you think is going to be about one thing but really it's dealing with so many other issues kind of underlying service really this is about violence against women that's the crux of it

The Black FlamingoDean Atta
Loved it

this is a why a book written in verse and it's just so beautiful i'm so i just loved it i thought the poetry was just gorgeous and i really loved all the themes it dealt with and it just makes me so happy that teenagers have this book

i really loved that development the ending is very like for me i was like this is quite sickly sweet this is almost like too perfect this ending like this is so nice but the journey you know i went with it the journey was so good it was worth it

i did really enjoy the vanishing half but something about it left me more impressed with it than really hit emotionally like at the end of it i really wanted to love it and i think i just came away from it going well that was very good but you know i didn't feel anything