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wynterwonderland's review
adventurous
emotional
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Homophobia, Racism, Body shaming, Transphobia, Lesbophobia, Racial slurs, Violence, Hate crime, and Bullying
Moderate: Child death
discworldwitch's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
The perfect feel-good book. I loved all the space-themed prose, and the lgbtq+ rep made my queer heart so happy! My only critique is that I wish there was more (more backstory, more detail, more epilogue, more cactus birthdays…) but it’s pretty perfect how it is.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racism, Homophobia, Transphobia, Alcohol, Body shaming, Injury/Injury detail, Lesbophobia, and Bullying
Minor: Cultural appropriation, Sexual harassment, and Fatphobia
bookcheshirecat's review
challenging
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
medium-paced
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Fatphobia, Bullying, and Homophobia
Moderate: Transphobia
paperbrownies's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
"i’m chicky quintanilla, reigning beer pong queen, the first openly pansexual girl in meteor’s history. so what if i’m not wearing the right costume? i’m dressed as myself."
"but this—not that word, but this, my brown arms around this piece of the sky—is who I am. this is mine"
this book is for all the brown girls, who think they are too brown, or too big to be take up space. for the ones still questioning their worth and coming to terms with their self!! a book about friendship and that just being yourself is enough tossed in with so much love and stardust, chicky and lita will steal your heart!!
also there is pansexual and trans representation!!
tw: lesbophobia, xenophobia, transphobia, bullying, verbal harassment, underage drinking, use of slurs
"but this—not that word, but this, my brown arms around this piece of the sky—is who I am. this is mine"
this book is for all the brown girls, who think they are too brown, or too big to be take up space. for the ones still questioning their worth and coming to terms with their self!! a book about friendship and that just being yourself is enough tossed in with so much love and stardust, chicky and lita will steal your heart!!
also there is pansexual and trans representation!!
tw: lesbophobia, xenophobia, transphobia, bullying, verbal harassment, underage drinking, use of slurs
Content Warnings
Graphic: Bullying, Transphobia, and Xenophobia
bookcaptivated's review
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Content Warnings
Graphic: Homophobia, Bullying, and Body shaming
Moderate: Racism, Transphobia, Xenophobia, and Fatphobia
allonsythornraxx's review
emotional
tense
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.75
09/04/2021
3.75 ⭐
I liked this but there was something stopping me from loving it. I loved the characters and the whole group dynamic, this was such a perfect dose of magical realism and reality that I honestly don't know what to say. This was fantastic and I'm amazed at how few people have read it.
3.75 ⭐
I liked this but there was something stopping me from loving it. I loved the characters and the whole group dynamic, this was such a perfect dose of magical realism and reality that I honestly don't know what to say. This was fantastic and I'm amazed at how few people have read it.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Homophobia, Racism, Racial slurs, Transphobia, and Bullying
jennikreads's review against another edition
inspiring
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Homophobia, Transphobia, Bullying, Racism, and Racial slurs
Moderate: Biphobia
jstor's review against another edition
adventurous
hopeful
mysterious
fast-paced
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
Content Warnings
Moderate: Transphobia, Homophobia, and Xenophobia
nytephoenyx's review
emotional
hopeful
fast-paced
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
I am so glad Miss Meteor was my first full read of 2021 because I can’t think of a better type of book to start off my year. Chicky and Lita were amazing characters – held back by secrets that are eating them up, bu each at their core kind and sweet. I also loved Cole and Junior, and all of Chicky’s sisters. I have nothing to criticize about this book. Absolutely nothing.
We start with a pair of estranged friends – Estrellita and Chiquita – who miss one another dreadfully, but their secrets have pulled them apart. Both have been ostracized by their small town, which likes to think itself “tolerant” but really, they can only be expected to “forgive” so much. Lita’s time is running out, and she wants to try for one last dream… and Chicky is done with the intolerance of one particular Miss Meteor contestant and wants to make her pay. When their paths align, Lita and Chicky agree to work together. And if it fixes their friendship, well, that’s okay too.
The setting of this book was resplendent. We get a feel of the town as a location from the different sites the girls regularly visit, and of the culture from the behavior of friends, strangers, and passerbys. Meteor(ite) is rich is sounds, smells, flavors, and sites without ever falling into overly lowly language. The desert’s vastness is told in the site of the crater, and its intimacy from Lita’s cactus birthdays. I loved the southwestern small town vibe. And I loved that despite the city’s many flaws, it didn’t feel like it was attacking small towns (as books often do – small towns are either idyllic or evil) but rather using this bite-sized example to showcase problems in the greater world.
I adored the intricacy of what I thought would be, initially, a really straightforward storyline. I liked the conversations about friendship in particular. Lita’s loneliness was heartbreaking, more so because of the constant reassurances of her friends. The magical realism aspects were just enough to me the story unique and intriguing, and I liked the various scattered romances. I would love a companion novel about one of Chicky’s sisters – I thought they were wonderful characters and while I wanted to see more of them on a personal level, I think they would have overwhelmed the more introspective characters if allowed more screen time.
Other notable things in this book? For one, the revenge plot never really stuck. And I don’t say that in a bad way – I think at a human level, we wish ill on people when we’re angry but how many of us would really carry out those plans. There was a moment where Chicky’s motivations seemed to shift, and I really lived that evolution. I also appreciated that we had a trans character without deadnaming him. I’d expect nothing less of these authors, but this is a shining example to others how to portray a trans character well (note: I am not trans, so it would be best to seek out an Own Voices review on the subject of this character/storyline, such as this one).
The rep in this book is golden – we have two Latinx protagonists, a trans character, and a pansexual protagonist. Miss Meteor takes the time to unravel xenophobia, homophobia, and transphobia on different levels – overt and subtle. Because of the focus on these topics (which, in my opinion, was incredibly well done), this may be a difficult book for many to read. But it’s also absolutely wonderful to see the diversity and the normalization of people who don’t fit into the mold. I want more books like this. I wish Miss Meteor and books like it had been available when I was a teen.
This is a really enjoyable contemporary, and it gets so many bonus points for its Own Voices points, the rep, and the handling of difficult topics. Miss Meteor is strange and beautiful, I guess, and I highly recommend it.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Homophobia, Transphobia, Xenophobia, Racism, and Bullying
laprismaluna's review
emotional
hopeful
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
cw: homophobia/biphobia, small town racism, transphobia
i just rlly enjoyed this book !! i don't know if it was all the named cacti (señorita strawberry ilu) or i loved the Quintanilla sisters and their outrageous shenanigans, but i just had a grand old time !! lita and all of her moments with cole were my favorite and it felt so genuinely loving ??? they gave my heart to a romance under the desert stars ??and featured CACTI ?? and GLITTER ?? incredibly my brand. it being a book about pageantry it was v much a book about teenage stardom.... and also teenage stars.... as u kno ;9
loved the diner. loved how cozy various parts of the settings there--u could feel everybody being close in every scene, whether or not it was cramped or if it was just siblings leaning on each other's weight. the energy in this book is stellar !! outta this world !!!
i just also appreciated the comments on class + the ugliness in small towns. the typicality of who is seen as an idol to be admired versus who finds themselves rooted in being true to who they are. on wealth and small business and the subtleties of race bleeding into everyday dynamics. pageantry is a wild business in a tourist town baby !!!
i just rlly enjoyed this book !! i don't know if it was all the named cacti (señorita strawberry ilu) or i loved the Quintanilla sisters and their outrageous shenanigans, but i just had a grand old time !! lita and all of her moments with cole were my favorite and it felt so genuinely loving ??? they gave my heart to a romance under the desert stars ??and featured CACTI ?? and GLITTER ?? incredibly my brand. it being a book about pageantry it was v much a book about teenage stardom.... and also teenage stars.... as u kno ;9
loved the diner. loved how cozy various parts of the settings there--u could feel everybody being close in every scene, whether or not it was cramped or if it was just siblings leaning on each other's weight. the energy in this book is stellar !! outta this world !!!
i just also appreciated the comments on class + the ugliness in small towns. the typicality of who is seen as an idol to be admired versus who finds themselves rooted in being true to who they are. on wealth and small business and the subtleties of race bleeding into everyday dynamics. pageantry is a wild business in a tourist town baby !!!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Homophobia, Transphobia, and Racism