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A review by ireadbooksnotminds
Troublemakers by Catherine Barter
4.0
Loved this. This was very much a ‘slice of life’ kind of story where nothing really exciting happens, rather, everything is realistic, but I never found myself getting bored. Alena was a convincing teenage character that Barter got just right—she wasn’t unbelievably naive but she wasn’t annoyingly precocious either. She was curious like any other 15-year-old teenage girl, wanting to understand the politics of a society she lived in, but there was still a lot she had yet to understand.
Danny and Nick made it so much better. I loved the diversity of their family set-up—Danny and his boyfriend Nick raising his little sister together—and the fact that them being a gay couple wasn’t all there was to their characters and their roles, although homophobia was a theme that was still discussed.
Truly an underrated 2017 release in UK YA.
Danny and Nick made it so much better. I loved the diversity of their family set-up—Danny and his boyfriend Nick raising his little sister together—and the fact that them being a gay couple wasn’t all there was to their characters and their roles, although homophobia was a theme that was still discussed.
Truly an underrated 2017 release in UK YA.