This world that Emezi wrote-is something that I want. I kinda felt like an outsider just reading the book, unable to connect with anything at all, and it kinda sucked. This book was short of my normal read (200 Pages is short), and for some odd reason it felt really long? i’m not sure if it was due to it being very dense that it made it hard to read quite a bit. I do like where the medical side gone to where Trans kids no longer have to go through physiological and have trauma afterwards. I’m not Trans at all, and the author themself is Trans. But also, this is a Trans MC who is Black, has supportive characters and her whole identity does not center around her being Trans. I’ve been wanting to read more Trans books especially during Pride (due to recent events, and Queer Folks owes Pride to Trans Black women for making it possible to celebrate now). Having a Trans MC with Selective Mutism made me really happy. I had this book on my shelf for a couple of months since I wanted to read it during Black History Month I think? But never got around to it, until I saw it actually contained a Trans MC where I knew I wanted to read this book for Pride Month (why did this just got a call out post in why I have not read that one book). “Monsters don’t look like anything, doux-doux. Her mother focused on her, cupping her cheek in a chalky hand. “What does a monster look like? Jam asked. Publication Date: September 10th, 2019 Publisher: Make Me a World Rating: Links: Amazon/ Book Depository/ Goodreads

In their riveting and timely young adult debut, acclaimed novelist Akwaeke Emezi asks difficult questions about what choices a young person can make when the adults around them are in denial.

Jam must fight not only to protect her best friend, but also to uncover the truth, and the answer to the question-How do you save the world from monsters if no one will admit they exist? Pet has come to hunt a monster, and the shadow of something grim lurks in Redemption’s house. But when she meets Pet, a creature made of horns and colours and claws, who emerges from one of her mother’s paintings and a drop of Jam’s blood, she must reconsider what she’s been told. With doting parents and a best friend named Redemption, Jam has grown up with this lesson all her life. There are no more monsters anymore, or so the children in the city of Lucille are taught.

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