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When You Look Like Us is a compelling debut novel about a teenage boy from Newport News. Jayson is living with his grandmother and trying to make money selling essays because he feels bad about putting her out. If that doesn’t tell you all you need to know about Jayson’s character then I don’t know what else you want.
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Give me ALL the survival stories! I want to read about people being stuck in the wilderness!
I’ve realised that since reading Be Not Far From Me, I’ve been really into survival stories. I knew I liked them before I read the book, but now I’ve realised that these stories are something that I want to actively pursue. Thank you to Mindy McGinnis for reigniting this fire in me.
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I’m posting this review with the caveat that I tend to not enjoy novels written in verse. I knew this when I requested a copy of Clap When You Land for review, but I thought I would love it because I’ve read both of Acevedo’s other books and I thought I was used to the writing style.
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I wasn’t originally going to pick up The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes as I didn’t really have any interest in President Snow’s backstory, and I thought that without Katniss Everdeen, the Hunger Games wouldn’t be all that interesting. I was correct.
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes felt, to me, entirely pointless. I struggled from the beginning to connect with Snow’s younger self. It seems strange to me that Collins chose to write the story from Snow’s point of view, as presumably everyone reading this book will know what he is to become. I read books to connect with the characters, but I couldn’t do that with The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes because I simply could not see the two Snows as two different people. I knew who he was.
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