A review by ktrusty416
Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass by Meg Medina

5.0

Oftentimes YA authors get so caught up with presenting an issue that they don't work as hard on the writing - believable characters/voice, a compelling story, spot on pacing and plotting. Thankfully, Meg Medina doesn't forget the writing. Piddy Sanchez is such a great protagonist, equal parts strong and vulnerable and the world she inhabits (urban, immigrant, working poor, mostly female) is one that may not be familiar to many readers - there is such a dearth of non-white characters in YA fiction - but Medina's representation of that world is rich, heart warming/breaking,complex and complicated. Just like real life.