A review by luciameetsbooks
Pride by Ibi Zoboi

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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