Girl Made of Stars

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Last night's book was Girl Made of Stars by A. H. Blake. It was late, I was sad, and honestly I could've used a good cry. Didn't happen, but it was still a good book.

(Also, if that name seems familiar, it's because A. H. Blake also wrote Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World!)

Basic plot is that this girl Mara has a best friend named Hannah and a twin named Owen and Hannah says Owen raped her at a party. This is very hard for Mara, cause family vs friend? Feminist beliefs vs "hes my twin"? Yeah. Also, Mara was dating (and is still having relationship problems with) this human named Charlie.

So yeah, lots of internal struggle and feminist things happen and it's all very emotional and hard.

It has a LOT of representation! Thank you! It also has representation that doesn't really always feel so boxed in! Wow! Actually impressed, guys.

At times there was too much going on and my tired brain definitely couldn't really keep up. We reread a lot of paragraphs.

Overall, around a 7/10. Jessie, I think you'd like this one?

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