Genre: Girls & Women

YA Poetry Arc Review: Say Her Name (Poems to Empower) by Zetta Elliot

Posted April 25, 2021 by Richetta in #ownvoices, Arc Review, Book Reviews, poetry, Young Adult

It isn’t often that I finish an entire poetry book in one sitting. But Say Her Name was so powerful and heartbreaking and uplifting that I had no choice, because it spoke to my spirit. I read this for the first time in June 2020 and it was the balm I needed at that moment […]

YA Review: The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X.R. Pan

Posted April 25, 2021 by Richetta in #ownvoices, Book Reviews, Young Adult

The start of this book is what caught me. It wasn’t long into it that I realized that despite Leigh, the main character, denying any connection to William Faulkner that she was indeed wrong. Emily X.R. Pan took Faulkner’s technique to the next level. I loved the structure of this story that goes from the […]