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If You Come Softly
by Jacqueline Woodson
If You Come Softly is a YA contemporary romance novel published in the late 1990s and is about a white girl and black boy falling in love. This is controversial because the two of them go to a predominantly white school and live in a place where interracial couples are taboo.
This book while seeming promising, has multiple issues. The first is the romance. This book was published in 1998 and it shows. The romance is instalove, and is underdeveloped throughout the entire novel, even though the character’s are instantly convinced they are in love with each other after only dating for a few weeks. If this book was longer than maybe the romance could have been better.
The ending of this book was rushed and predictable. It seems like it’s sole purpose was to create shock value for the readers, and in my opinion it is poorly executed. There needed to be more at the end but there was no real explanation of what happened after the climax. There was a clear need for 20 extra pages.
Overall, If You Come Softly has a great message behind it, but could have been executed better.
This book while seeming promising, has multiple issues. The first is the romance. This book was published in 1998 and it shows. The romance is instalove, and is underdeveloped throughout the entire novel, even though the character’s are instantly convinced they are in love with each other after only dating for a few weeks. If this book was longer than maybe the romance could have been better.
The ending of this book was rushed and predictable. It seems like it’s sole purpose was to create shock value for the readers, and in my opinion it is poorly executed. There needed to be more at the end but there was no real explanation of what happened after the climax. There was a clear need for 20 extra pages.
Overall, If You Come Softly has a great message behind it, but could have been executed better.