A review by vael
Brooms by Jasmine Walls

emotional hopeful lighthearted fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

To start, this was an amazing book worth a 5 stars review. 
The reason: Brooms is a book set in 1930 Mississippi, where things are not that great for magic users of color and the protagonists need to start participating in clandestine races to gain money and be safe, but the plot is so much more than that.
The amount of research and care that was put into this graphic novel is impressive. The parallelism with the history of queer people is amazing and you can sense the authors care about the topic. I am a queer of color, but not from the country this is set on, so I can’t talk a lot about the history part of the book, but I am happy to see the representation of so many people with such amazing character design.
I don’t love this novel just for the representation, all the magic and races are entertaining and I hope to read more books like this.
This graphic novel left me with so many emotions and the ending was what I hoped for.  I am thankful for the opportunity NetGalley gave me of reading this novel, it is going to be my favorite for a while.
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