YA recommendations

So to continue on with the John Green recommendations, here are the YA books! YA is my jam. I absolutely love everything about YA books. I love the content, I love the authors, I love writing them, I love reading them, I just love YA. I have the "YA Saves" T-shirt. (Thanks, Maureen Johnson <3)

So without further ado, let's jump into these awesome books.

4. Now, while both of these books were lovely, poetry is still just not my thing. I needed something that was more Cat-speed. So I moved on to a YA book called The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas.

holy shit.
I mean. This book is a phenomenon. It is brutal and harsh and tells you EXACTLY like it is. The main character, Starr Carter, a black girl who lives in the 'hood', is in a car with her best friend Khalil when they're pulled over by a white cop. We know this story. It has been on every news channel, FAR more often than it ever should be.

"The truth casts a shadow over the kitchen—people like us in situations like this become hashtags, but they rarely get justice. I think we all wait for that one time though, that one time when it ends right.
Maybe this can be it."

This book is so important and so relevant. It's heartbreakingly honest. I feel like this book is an INSTANT classic. Every white person in America needs to read it, asap, no matter how woke you may be. I get why John Green recommended this book (thanks for that, by the way), because I will also (and have already started) be recommending this book. Literally to everyone. EVERYONE.

5. Next on the list was We Are Okay by Nini Lacour. This books was very different from THUG, but also an amazing book. It's a story about a girl dealing with grief and solitude, and is as important as We Are Okay is the kind of book that actually hurts to read in places because you can identify with the character so much, even if her situation is very different from yours.
THUG in a very different way.

It's a beautiful, heartbreaking book, about character and relationships and emotions more than about telling a story.




In other news, it's been a while since I've posted and updated this blog!! I'm still reading, but I've had other projects on the go at the same time - mainly my HUGE Star Wars undertaking, that will probably get a blog post of it's own when it's finished!! (Though that may be a while from now...)

That's all for now!