These themes will vary! It could be based off of some book mail I just received, pop culture, something personal to me, a headline from the news, a trend I noticed when I was buying books for my library system, etc. I hope you stick around to see all the themes and book recs I come up with!
Today’s Theme: Black YA Novels in Verse
I’m not usually a novel in verse kind of person, but I WILL read them if I trust the author or I know they’re Black. Candice Iloh checks both of these boxes. I LOVED thier debut novel in verse. I missed their novel in prose, but when I saw this was a verse novel again, I knew I needed to get my hands on it. And this book is so good! Iloh’s poetry is always short and to the point. In most verse novels I always feel like I don’t know large parts of the story. This book made it easy to follow along and there was nothing major missing from it.
This is another verse novel that I just recently read and loved. Now Hannah Sawyer just checked one box for me, but I wanted to read it because of the subject matter. This book is for the #MeToo movement. And Sawyer said it’s based on her own experiences. I did feel that there was some missing chunks in this, but at the same time, with the content, it’s easy to determine what you’re missing. This book, this cover was everything. I really hope more people read this!
Well, there you go! Here I’m just going to talk about why I grouped these two books together. I hope you enjoyed a look at this small part of the books. For a full synopsis of the book or to add it to your TBR, click the picture and it will take you to their Storygraph. The link on the caption will take you to it’s Goodreads.
What about you? Do you like Novels in Verse? Which one of these will you add to your TBR? Let me know in the comments!