Title: Juliet Takes a Breath Author: Gabby Rivera Publish Date: September 17, 2019 Publisher: Dial Books Format: Hardcover Page Count: 320 pages Source: Library Date Read: March 14-21, 2020 Review I read this book as part of the Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge 2020 prompt "debut by queer author....
Again, I like America. I really, really loved her in Young Avengers, but that whole run was amazing. And I keep reading great things about Gabby Rivera's novel; she is Latina, queer, and a writer who's book was lauded by Roxanne Gay. So I went into this, figuring it probably would be five stars....
Juliet was holding onto a dream. She found her dream inside a book and she hopes that by meeting the author of this book, she would finally be set free. She is tired of hiding, she wants to live, and she wants to breathe. What Juliet actually finds in the end was not the freedom that she expected bu...
"Feminism. I’m new to it. The word still sounds weird and wrong. Too white, too structured, too foreign: something I can’t claim. I wish there was another word for it. Maybe I need to make one up. My mom’s totally a feminist but she never uses that word. She molds my little brother’s breakfast eggs ...