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A review by ilikebooks_okay
Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
emotional
tense
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
4.5
This was so heartbreakingly beautiful. A story of two sisters whos dad with two lives dies and they find out each other exist. This is a story about greif but also a story about the bonds of family and friends and supporting each other during these hard times.
"So he created a theatre of his life / & got lost in all the different roles he had to play."
I've really been falling deeper and deeper in love with verse. It's so simply written but also so emotive, this is defiently the saddest verse I've read though which is why it took me way longer to read it then I had imagined I found myself having to take breaks, the sisters emotions so intense.
"You can't run from what hurts you or like a dog smelling fear that greif will just keep chasing with ever sharp teeth."
I also really loved seeing the Dominican Republic in this book, exploring the culture and society was just amazing and so insightful and following mainly women living hear was really empowering to read.
" She is a nurturer but she is also a ferocious defender. / remember that to walk this world, you must be kind / but also fierce."
"So he created a theatre of his life / & got lost in all the different roles he had to play."
I've really been falling deeper and deeper in love with verse. It's so simply written but also so emotive, this is defiently the saddest verse I've read though which is why it took me way longer to read it then I had imagined I found myself having to take breaks, the sisters emotions so intense.
"You can't run from what hurts you or like a dog smelling fear that greif will just keep chasing with ever sharp teeth."
I also really loved seeing the Dominican Republic in this book, exploring the culture and society was just amazing and so insightful and following mainly women living hear was really empowering to read.
" She is a nurturer but she is also a ferocious defender. / remember that to walk this world, you must be kind / but also fierce."
Content Warnings
Graphic: Stalking, Grief, Rape, Sexual violence, Death, and Death of parent