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Pride by Ibi Zoboi

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ashleyreads88's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes

Pride was a classic enemy to friends to lovers story, and I loved it. Another thing that I loved was how the dynamics of the two families were highlighted and how they were one of the main focuses of the story. I also loved Zuri, how she grew as a character, how her relationship with Darius developed, and how as they went from enemies to friends to lovers they learned and any previous misconceptions about each other were resolved.

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thaliareads's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging emotional hopeful 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? Yes

4.5

I enjoyed this adaptation of an Austen classic. I especially loved the poetry woven into the storytelling, it was a very powerful tool for imparting the messages this book was trying to communicate. To be honest my main complaint was that the book seemed too short. I know pride and prejudice is also a shorter book, but I think that it expanded in a few areas that allowed for it to be more clear why Elizabeth would want to give Darcy a chance. Also, not necessarily a complaint about the book, but my own personal preference, I didn't like Ainsley and Darius being full brothers and having the sisters fall for blood brothers. I know there's nothing like actually wrong with that, it just gives me a bit of the ick compared to if they had been cousins or one had been adopted or something.

Overall, I loved how you could see all the events of Austen's book mirrored, but everything was put in a fresh modern light, allowing it to stand as its own successful story.

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luciameetsbooks's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful inspiring relaxing 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

4.0

the audiobook of this one is narrated by elizabeth acevedo and it truly solidified my opinion that elizabeth acevedo is the best narrator there is!

zuri, our mc, is phenomenal and so real. her emotions are so well depicted in this book, how she finds beauty in everything and still doesn't have rose tinted glasses all the time. she's a teen trying to figure out life while everything is changing.

but this book is so much more than that, it deals with racism, gentrification and classism. it does it in such a way that the characters feel even more proud of their cultural identity because that's something no one can ever take away from them and i thought that was lovely.

the only reason i had to lower the rating was because of the love interest. i HATE him, he was so boring and also there was just a scene where

zuri said his family was snobby and he got super defensive and called her family ghetto which was waaay out of line

and after that i couldn't see him the same way. he also never defended her even when she was expecting him to.

also, let other girls touch you and snuggle up to you while you have a girlfriend? seriously?

. honestly if the romance hadn't been the main theme of the book, i would have enjoyed it a lot more.

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gwynn0715's review

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emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective 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

3.0

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littlewishling's review

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funny lighthearted fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

A really interesting take on Pride and Prejudice. It was great to see what characters were kept and what changed as well as how it was adapted to a modern setting and Black perspective. I did struggle with the colloquial language but that is my personal taste.

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