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That's frustrating at times but I gotta admire Montgomery for not giving her a neat and tidy road to understanding or forgiveness even when the reader can see the way there. I loved the characters, her friends and the new friends and Kai. They were so opposite and made for each other it is ridiculous.
This could’ve been just me, but I really don’t enjoy it when we know the entire conflict by like, chapter 2, which would’ve been fine, if the chapters were a lot longer than they were. I also really loved the dynamics among Tasia, Dahlia, and Victory. I didn't like Dahlia, and then I did. Taze by herself is such an amazing character. But then we see Taze interacting with others and damn i love a messy, makes mistakes all over the place trying to find themselves characters. This book is very much about identity and family.
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And it also caught my eye because she ends up catching feelings with a bisexual character in which I always love representation in books. I really wanted to like this book. The premise is really interesting, and it was great to have a protagonist talk out loud about some of the issues a lot of black women are afraid to vocalize really acknowledge outside of their circles. However, and this could be the fact that I'm way older than the protagonist, but I kept getting hung up on just how privileged Tasia was. She's going through a lot, admittedly, but I was pressed to find myself caring.
The artsy bisexual boy living with her new grandparents wants to help her find them—if she can stop fighting who she is, beyond the color of her skin. I was really intrigued by the synopsis of this book, which is the exact reason why I picked it up. A beautiful mixed girl, who not only can stand up for herself, but she also plays football?
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I think any teen reading this book will be drawn to that part of her, that she just knows she belongs on that field. Her friendship with Stacy “Slim” Lim is #friendshipgoals. The cast of characters surrounding Tasia reflects life as it is with beautiful diversity and realness. There is no perfect anything or anyone. This novel has so much heart and the emotions are raw.
And pitting her against the one other black girl until the very in felt so so so weirdddd to me like that should have been her solace and comfort not her anger. And I don't even know why they were arguing! OHHHH and when she said "black girl magic" after kneeling at the football game?
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She literally stops talking to her best friend and only starts talking to her again after a duration. She doesn’t take care of her friends and expects them to take of her. ✤ Nothing much of Tasia is introduced. We get she is light-skinned with afro-like hair, but that's about it.
We talk to the boys and, yes, we flirt with them. Only, I don't flirt with my teammates because that's like flirting with your pain-in-the-ass brother whose idea of fun is science puns. "To ..." Hell if I know, but it ceases to matter when, speak of the devil, Josiah's girlfriend, Kat, trots over. "Please come?" The rules of best friendship state, loosely, if you beg they must concede. I glance back and grin hard, but don't say it back. Little moments like that, they creep up on you the way a spidering crack spreads.
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It is a coming of age, figuring out who you are, forgiveness, and dealing with major changes. I do like the ending quite a bit. It wasn't a big nice happy HEA.
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.
Along the way, she discovers what family and forgiveness really mean, and that her answers don’t come without a fee. An artsy bisexual boy from the Valley could help her find them—but only if she stops fighting who she is, beyond the color of her skin. But when she catches her mother trying to stuff a mysterious box in the closet, her identity is suddenly called into question.
But I, multiple times, almost didn't finish. Multiple times, put the book down. I loved the relationship between Taze and her bro Tristan. As with her mom and dad, the sibling relationship becomes strained after it's revealed her mom's been lying to her about who her dad really is. (I know, it’s a ARC and I shouldn’t quote directly from it, but I really like that sentence.) I also liked Kai and how Tasia’s attraction to him and relationship with him develops.
This is her story and journey and the author did a great job of balancing that. And Kaiiiiiii damn i loved that kid. I mean she's angry after being lied to so it makes for some heavyyyy emotional scenes i think which were so well executed. I was alll up in my feels so yup. It’s the mystery that kept me reading.
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