What a charming book! This is for me pretty much the platonic ideal of a contemporary YA story about a young queer Black girl just trying to make it through high school and find enough money to go to her dream college. In this particular case, Liz goes to school in Indiana, where the prom every spring is the biggest event in town, and being crowned King or Queen is worth a ten thousand dollar scholarship. And so she has to enter, even though she's a bit of a wallflower and this means she'll have to spend time with her former best friend Jordan, the most popular kid on the football team.
There's a great friends group with constant teenage angst, and a fantastic queer love interest named Mack who loves the same band she does, and a really interesting and complicated family life, and it's just a really nice read where you never worry too much about whether it'll all turn out okay, and the stakes are real and mistakes and choices matter, but nothing is life-ending. I really enjoyed it and can't wait to buy it for a GSA library.
Grade: B
There's a great friends group with constant teenage angst, and a fantastic queer love interest named Mack who loves the same band she does, and a really interesting and complicated family life, and it's just a really nice read where you never worry too much about whether it'll all turn out okay, and the stakes are real and mistakes and choices matter, but nothing is life-ending. I really enjoyed it and can't wait to buy it for a GSA library.
Grade: B
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