A review by amandalorianxo
Color Me in by Natasha Díaz

emotional reflective slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

You can definitely tell this is someone’s first book aka the author’s because despite the premise being strong, a lot of our characters don’t have a lot of personality traits / veers into the stereotypical. Plus- how in the world did Jesus & Nevaeh jump from him calling her Lightskin to a whole flipping relationship ? It confused me. I’m not entirely sure how a lot of the storylines could have played out in real time because some of this also didn’t seem to make sense to me despite this being pulled from the author’s own life. I can’t think of any Rabbi willing to spend gas to take a student to Hebrew school. 
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