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It wasn't a focus, but it was important to Tasia, and it helps mark the time and some of her relationships. Montgomery's writing was pretty good. I still felt compelled to finish the story. There was never really a big draw with the story with me, so I was able to set it down and not want to pick it back up for a while. ✤ Pushes people away and tells people to not make it about themselves when she makes it about herself with every little thing.
I admire her for her courage to stand up to her parents, say what she needs and intends to do, and do it. I also commend her parents — her mom, really — for respecting her needs and allowing her to sort things out in her own way, though they didn’t agree with her method for doing so. (I’m being mad vague here so as not to spoil any part of the story.) I also like how much development Tasia’s character receives.
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Tasia Quirk is young, Black, and fabulous. Tasia is determined to unravel the lies that have overtaken her life. Which means priority #1 is tracking down her bio dad. Along the way, Tasia discovers that forgiveness is more than an eleven-letter word, and there's a fee for answers.
And pitting her against the one other black girl until the very in felt so so so weirdddd to me like that should have been her solace and comfort not her anger. And I don't even know why they were arguing! OHHHH and when she said "black girl magic" after kneeling at the football game?
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When Tasia Quirk discovers that the man she has called Daddy her entire life is not her biological father, her entire world begins to unravel. Compounding the lie she has grown up believing is the fact that her actual biological father is white, and the man she thought was her father is black. Tasia has to figure out who she is and where she fits in in this new reality, and she has to figure out if she can ever forgive the lies her parents raised her on. Some pretty intense stuff happens to Tasia, and as much as she talks tough you don't forget that she's a kid who is only just learning how to handle this kind of thing.
I think the best part about it was its messiness - with its characters, their actions, and the situation that they're in. There is no "right" way to react when your world has been literally turned upside down the way that Tasia's is, and a lot of the things that happened felt SO real and relatable. There were moments that I was frustrated with things that Tasia was doing, but also, like, I got it. Tasia's world is rocked, and even if she did things I wouldn't have done, I still GOT them. She's angry and frustrated and you could just feel her pain through the pages.
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Trist was amazing as well so level headed and just always making her think about the choices she made and what was going on. Kelly and Christy, two parts ofBookCrushin, are passionate book fangirls who read and share books with their closest monthly blog readers. There’s not a YA genre left out between them and they love comics, graphic novels, and some romance and adult fiction, too. From covering local events to booktube interviews to creative features, we feature daily posts alongside regular social media posts. The cast of characters here are so interesting, each in their own right and even as we are introduced to a lot of people they never over shadow Taze.
I worry about how I sometimes see Mamma get weirdly manic when she's under a lot of work stress. I worry when I see Daddy get frustrated when he's trying to put something together — maybe some furniture, recently the ceiling fan in my room. Josiah's grinning like a fool as the rest of the team floods us on the field. "Atta-baby, Tasia! Way to be, Taze. Atta-girl!" We high-five as we line up off to the side of the field to greet the other team and congratulate them on a well-played game. If you're looking to fall head over heels for some LGBTQ+ romances, you'll find yourself quite lucky in love with recent books.
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If you read contemporary Young Adult books, I urge you to read Home and Away. It is a necessary addition to your collection and Candice Montgomery is a phenomenal writer. I hope she is given every opportunity to write many more stories. I can’t wait to read her sophomore book, By Any Means Necessary, which is available everywhere. As I started with, I wanted so desperately to like this book. But, there were too many stops in the road.
I think I experienced every emotion there is while reading. Tasia’s powerful voice is sure to hit a chord with teens and adults alike. Secondly, I felt, and I may be wrong, that the queerness and blackness in the book was being itemized, sold, and co-opted throughout the text. To begin, Kai's queerness is like half of what we know about him. I also don't like the one known bisexual character being seen as fast, multiple partners, sexually crazy, etc. Even the non binary characters were seemingly coopted, seemingly inserted as performative allegiances.
There were many many skips where I was unsure where we were in the plot, in the universe, etc. Things happened so irregularly, it was like novelistic ping pong. The writing was fine but it also felt like she was trying to seem young. IDK how old the author was when she started the book but it felt like forced youth. From the Instagram names to the vernacular. I really liked the role football played in this story!
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