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A review by decklededgess
Hope Nation: YA Authors Share Personal Moments of Inspiration by Angie Thomas, Jason Reynolds
4.0
I'm marking this as read even though I haven't finished it. I read all the essays from authors that I REALLY wanted to read so I think I've exhausted the content that interested me. I had originally planned on giving this 3 stars because I felt like my disinterest in reading other chapters was something I needed to count towards the intrigue of this book but that's utter bullshit and really unfair. Every essay I read was 5 stars but I haven't finished the book. So I'll wait till I finish the entire thing to give it an overall rating.
[edit: I decided fuck it this deserves a positive rating at least so I'm gonna give it 4 stars]
In terms of content, this book was great. Very timely and very inspiring. It did exactly what it set out to do which was inspire hope in this shitty shitty time. The essays take a long time to process tbh because they're so heavy in their message and hit so many emotions so friggin hard but they also really make you think. This was a really fantastic idea and it's very clear that the authors and Dr. Rose Brock poured their hears and souls into this anthology.
J*mes D*shner has a chapter in here but that's bc the assault allegations weren't out yet so can't fault the author and publisher for that. I refuse to read his chapter though.
As for trigger warnings I guess the aforementioned predator is one, motor accident, depression, islamophobia, racism, microaggressions against poc and immigrants, and more definitely but I haven't read everything so idk what they are.
[edit: I decided fuck it this deserves a positive rating at least so I'm gonna give it 4 stars]
In terms of content, this book was great. Very timely and very inspiring. It did exactly what it set out to do which was inspire hope in this shitty shitty time. The essays take a long time to process tbh because they're so heavy in their message and hit so many emotions so friggin hard but they also really make you think. This was a really fantastic idea and it's very clear that the authors and Dr. Rose Brock poured their hears and souls into this anthology.
J*mes D*shner has a chapter in here but that's bc the assault allegations weren't out yet so can't fault the author and publisher for that. I refuse to read his chapter though.
As for trigger warnings I guess the aforementioned predator is one, motor accident, depression, islamophobia, racism, microaggressions against poc and immigrants, and more definitely but I haven't read everything so idk what they are.