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North of Beautiful by Justina Chen
5.0

Honestly, I expected to hate this book. I thought it would be one of those shallow books where a girl has a few problems but it all gets better as soon as she meets a boy.

Although Terra does have problems and she does meet a boy, this book went above and beyond all my expectations. I love how it focuses on family relationships instead of just romantic relationships and I love seeing the redemption Terra's mom goes through in the book. I also love the motif of maps in the book, because motifs are a device that are usually ignored by young adult authors, so it was great to see an author who was unafraid to use them.