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A review by drridareads
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
2.0
Some time ago I saw this video of Avecedo and was completely in awe of her so I expected greatness from this book. This is probably the second book that I read that was written in verse so I'm disappointed since the first [b:Long Way Down|22552026|Long Way Down|Jason Reynolds|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1520008013s/22552026.jpg|42009801] was absolutely brilliant.
I liked some parts of the book, how it discusses fathers as parents;
Just because your father’s present
doesn’t mean he isn’t absent.
how dangerous silence is;
But maybe my silence.
Just made him feel more alone.
Maybe my silence.
Condones the ugly things people think.
how it discussed body shaming, feminist messages and also talks about harassment. There was this one poem called "After" which I really loved.
Also this was my first book with Dominican characters and I hope there will be more!
I absolutely adored the cover. Epic reads did a behind the scenes cover interview of Gabriel Moreno last year
There are so many things i did not like.
I'm all for using another language specially if the author/ character is multi/bilingual but there were some places where she uses Spanish without giving translation which was sort of annoying.
This book's focus was Xiomara who narrates our book but I really feel like the secondary characters were important but lacked the development maybe this format restricted it.
I felt like the plot was lacking too. There's not much that really happens.
There has to be a problem that if I were asked the best thing about this book I'd say the cover.
Then there's this whole way she talks about religion. Look I know I'm a religious Muslims but I've read books with with atheist characters before who are much kinder about their choices, I don't know how to say this but I found her to be very aggressive and close minded about her mind like only she knows and only she is right about this..like how about we be more accepting?
There is parental abuse in this book in the light that it's cause her mother is religious. Which is stereotype I don't like. Even other than that the resolve just makes no sense it's as if along the lines let's just bury all that happened in the past..
Also there are moments where she performs slam poetry. And it just says how it went. I would've very much like to know what exactly killed it
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Really wanted to love this one because I think Elizabeth Avecedo is amazing but while it's a good book it just didn't resonate with me that much. Full RTC soon
I liked some parts of the book, how it discusses fathers as parents;
Just because your father’s present
doesn’t mean he isn’t absent.
how dangerous silence is;
But maybe my silence.
Just made him feel more alone.
Maybe my silence.
Condones the ugly things people think.
how it discussed body shaming, feminist messages and also talks about harassment. There was this one poem called "After" which I really loved.
Also this was my first book with Dominican characters and I hope there will be more!
I absolutely adored the cover. Epic reads did a behind the scenes cover interview of Gabriel Moreno last year
There are so many things i did not like.
I'm all for using another language specially if the author/ character is multi/bilingual but there were some places where she uses Spanish without giving translation which was sort of annoying.
This book's focus was Xiomara who narrates our book but I really feel like the secondary characters were important but lacked the development maybe this format restricted it.
I felt like the plot was lacking too. There's not much that really happens.
There has to be a problem that if I were asked the best thing about this book I'd say the cover.
Then there's this whole way she talks about religion. Look I know I'm a religious Muslims but I've read books with with atheist characters before who are much kinder about their choices, I don't know how to say this but I found her to be very aggressive and close minded about her mind like only she knows and only she is right about this..like how about we be more accepting?
There is parental abuse in this book in the light that it's cause her mother is religious. Which is stereotype I don't like. Even other than that the resolve just makes no sense it's as if along the lines let's just bury all that happened in the past..
Also there are moments where she performs slam poetry. And it just says how it went. I would've very much like to know what exactly killed it
______________________________________________
Really wanted to love this one because I think Elizabeth Avecedo is amazing but while it's a good book it just didn't resonate with me that much. Full RTC soon