A review by jjkmanga
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

5.0

so so so personal. to see myself almost exactly in a character and their life and how they feel and how they view the world. a big complaint has been that the inner struggles and conflict between characters is resolved too quickly at the end, but i’d argue that the way this ended was just as true to life as a big climatic resolve would have been. sometimes closure between families is forced and quick because of your relationship. sometimes you don’t get to have the big rebuilding-a-relationship montage or long conversations. things simply go back to how they were because you’re family. i can’t tell you if that’s a good or bad thing, but i can say that this book meant a lot to me.
i complain a lot about poetry, how it’s pretentious and useless and over exploited. but i really do love it. i love writing poetry and reading prose and seeing how someone else can take few words and enunciate them in just the right way for it to have a deeper meaning.
i appreciated this story a lot and i think there needs to be more representation for this kind of novel


*day 5 of reading a book a day for a week