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Your Driver Is Waiting by Priya Guns
dark
reflective
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
one word comes to mind to sum up this book: gritty. this was real and raw and provocative. and i loved it.
damani is a rideshare driver in an unnamed city, caring for her mom after her dad’s death and trying too hard to keep a roof over their head. until she meets jolene, a white woman who is a self proclaimed activist. damani is head over heels until an act of betrayal forces her to finally fight back against the world.
i saw a couple people comment on the satire of this book, but i truly don’t read it like that. the political climates, the human flaws, the social aspects…it was all spot on and i see the realness the author pulled from. it felt completely true to the society we know.
the foreshadowing and backlight of the activism and protesting and demonstrations in this book was always looming and i knew it would all come to a head. this is to say, you could kind of feel what would happen but the narration and the writing made it so interesting and entertaining.
read this for the queerness, for the self reflection, for the mentions of palestine! go for it!
damani is a rideshare driver in an unnamed city, caring for her mom after her dad’s death and trying too hard to keep a roof over their head. until she meets jolene, a white woman who is a self proclaimed activist. damani is head over heels until an act of betrayal forces her to finally fight back against the world.
i saw a couple people comment on the satire of this book, but i truly don’t read it like that. the political climates, the human flaws, the social aspects…it was all spot on and i see the realness the author pulled from. it felt completely true to the society we know.
the foreshadowing and backlight of the activism and protesting and demonstrations in this book was always looming and i knew it would all come to a head. this is to say, you could kind of feel what would happen but the narration and the writing made it so interesting and entertaining.
read this for the queerness, for the self reflection, for the mentions of palestine! go for it!