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Later, you might wonder what else you were thinking about that was so important. So vital that you couldn't spare two seconds to call three words, eight letters, back. As I start to jog toward the girls' locker room, where I'll be changing my pads out for a hoodie, Mamma calls, "I love you." "Mom. They're fine. It's fine. But I really gotta get changed or the guys — they'll leave without me." Her hands feel around my back, meeting only padding.
There's so much about honesty here as well as family. That's what Tasia finds that she really wants from other people, and it's also what she needs to be able to give. All the feelings with Kai and Taze about family, oof.
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I want to say it is because I am too old to have related to Tasia. And Tasia infuriated the ever loving crap out of me. The box, which was presented early on as the central exploration and driving motivation, was not explored very thoroughly at all. Football was a distraction and so so much of her identity. She didn't really seem to know herself.
Trist was amazing as well so level headed and just always making her think about the choices she made and what was going on. Kelly and Christy, two parts ofBookCrushin, are passionate book fangirls who read and share books with their closest monthly blog readers. There’s not a YA genre left out between them and they love comics, graphic novels, and some romance and adult fiction, too. From covering local events to booktube interviews to creative features, we feature daily posts alongside regular social media posts. The cast of characters here are so interesting, each in their own right and even as we are introduced to a lot of people they never over shadow Taze.
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And usually when people give me gifts, I try my best to enjoy them. But I ultimately did not enjoy this book. I will try to be as concise with my ranting as possible. Goodreads is the world's largest site for readers with over 50 million reviews. We're featuring millions of their reader ratings on our book pages to help you find your new favourite book. And aside from that, I've always worried about my family a little.
It is the goal of her stories to interrogate the spaces of race, love, the body, and sexuality, all while being a witness of life. This was the author’s debut book, which is the only reason why I give it two stars because for someone’s first book, it wasn’t completely terrible. But I do not recommend whatsoever. But, after reading the first 50 pages, I was bored, irritated, and overall decided to put this on my did not finish list. I appreciate how much Tasia was allowed to be angry here, the ways in which she defined what forgiveness needed to look like for her in different relationships.
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I mean, like, this girl here would be having paranoid delusions for like 20 pages before every moving in with someone, so I wanted like, at least a page. The romance with Kai came fast and furious as well. ✤ First-person POV and the author makes it known we are reading through a teenager because she drops TBH, 3C, EU, and other slangs (I’m surprised she didn’t drop an LOL cause that’s what I was doing). It feels very forced and obvious the author is no longer a teen but trying to sound like one. ✤ MC plays football ~ Kudos for a Black female playing football. I had to attend football matches because of band all four years, but I still knew nothing about football and didn’t understand any of the terminology.
That felt like a forced insertion in the name of political statements. That, that, that was the straw that broke the uncle fucking camels back. It had to be a one star after that. But when a mysterious box arrives, family secrets spill out, and her identity is suddenly called into question. The box is filled with mementos from Tasia’s life, including a birth certificate with a blank paternity line and a photo of her mom in the arms of some white dude... Turns out, the man she always thought was her father isn't.
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✤ DIVERSITY ~ The book is written by a Black author, the MC is biracial, the secondary characters are POC, and the love interest is bisexual. For instance, there was a scene in which two friends discovered their distaste for each other was due to colorism and jealousy of blackness. I didn’t get it and I think it was mostly due to the fact of its timing and the fact that the character just didn’t come off that way, neither of them did. What, oh what, can I say about this book. This was an anticipated read for me.
To see what your friends thought of this book,please sign up. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data. Eighteen-year-old Tasia struggles with uncertainty around identity and family in Montgomery's debut novel. But despite all that, we have fun.
Let me talk to you like I would a friend. Ya’ll if I talked to my mama like that she would have beat my ass into next week! Hell, I’m 27 and wouldn’t take that tone with my mama.
She’s constantly learning more about herself and her family and making note of what she values or should value and what can change. And one of my last issues was some of the characters' actions. The biggest issue that I had was Tasia's and Kai's friend group. Everyone always warns her that Kai will hurt her and mess up, and like, I don't usually talk about my friends this way??? Two of them are in love with Kai and intensely upset/jealous over their relationship ending. They continuously are jerks to Tasia and actively try to get with Kai, and Tasia is still mostly good with them?
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