A review by minervareads
Hope Nation: YA Authors Share Personal Moments of Inspiration by Angie Thomas, Jason Reynolds

5.0

I didn’t know what to expect from this book. Honestly, I bought it because Julie Murphy talked about it a lot on her Instagram. I saw her posts about her struggle with the fact that Dashner was involved in the project. And I saw that she believed the messages contained in the book were such that they, paired with the support from her fellow authors, deserved to be told, and heard. And I agree. I loved almost every essay in this book. Zetner and Dashner’s essays fell flat for me; they didn’t resonate with me as a reader, and felt out of place in this collection. But overall, it was an uplifting collection that does exactly what it set out to: instill hope.