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A review by bibliozord
With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo
5.0
Elizabeth Acevedo has done it again guys. She can do no wrong and anyone who disagrees and keep your opinions to yourself and let me be okay? okay.
So where do I even begin?
Liz’s writing is beautiful, it’s simple yet poetic, she really has a way with words. This book has some of my new favorite quotes like
“The world is a turntable that never stops spinning; as humans we merely choose the tracks we want to sit out and the ones that inspire us to dance.”
And
“I’m constantly having to give people geography and history lessons on how my grandmother’s hometown is 65 percent Afro–Puerto Rican, on how the majority of slaves were dropped off in the Caribbean and Latin America, on how just because our Black comes with bomba and mofongo doesn’t mean it isn’t valid.”
That last one hit me hard. As an Afro-Latina myself I often have to explain the same thing to people.
JUST BECAUSE MY BLACK COMES WITH MERENGUE AND MANGU DOESN'T MEAN IT ISN'T VALID!!!
I love how this book focus’s on Emoni’s love life. Not only with the love interest that comes into her life. But mainly with her Daughter and her love of cooking. This is a story of family and how you're not only born into it. But, you can also find it in people you would never think of finding it. Emoni starts off with just her Daughter and Buela. And by the end of the book she grows to accept that she isn’t alone in the world. That there’s so many people who are willing to help and support her in the next step of her life. And that my friends is beautiful!
Also can we talk about how the baby daddy is actually in the baby’s life. That made me happy so see that we’re breaking the “missing baby daddy” stereotypes!! Even though Emoni wants to lowkey smack him upside the head but tbh same lmao!! Tyrone isn’t the best character, he says and does dumb things. But you can see that he try’s his best to be in Babygirl's life, and I love that.
I will link my full review here that I will post on YouTube later this month!
PS: Read [b:The Poet X|33294200|The Poet X|Elizabeth Acevedo|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1498766234s/33294200.jpg|54024746] if you haven’t already hehhehe
So where do I even begin?
Liz’s writing is beautiful, it’s simple yet poetic, she really has a way with words. This book has some of my new favorite quotes like
“The world is a turntable that never stops spinning; as humans we merely choose the tracks we want to sit out and the ones that inspire us to dance.”
And
“I’m constantly having to give people geography and history lessons on how my grandmother’s hometown is 65 percent Afro–Puerto Rican, on how the majority of slaves were dropped off in the Caribbean and Latin America, on how just because our Black comes with bomba and mofongo doesn’t mean it isn’t valid.”
That last one hit me hard. As an Afro-Latina myself I often have to explain the same thing to people.
JUST BECAUSE MY BLACK COMES WITH MERENGUE AND MANGU DOESN'T MEAN IT ISN'T VALID!!!
I love how this book focus’s on Emoni’s love life. Not only with the love interest that comes into her life. But mainly with her Daughter and her love of cooking. This is a story of family and how you're not only born into it. But, you can also find it in people you would never think of finding it. Emoni starts off with just her Daughter and Buela. And by the end of the book she grows to accept that she isn’t alone in the world. That there’s so many people who are willing to help and support her in the next step of her life. And that my friends is beautiful!
Also can we talk about how the baby daddy is actually in the baby’s life. That made me happy so see that we’re breaking the “missing baby daddy” stereotypes!! Even though Emoni wants to lowkey smack him upside the head but tbh same lmao!! Tyrone isn’t the best character, he says and does dumb things. But you can see that he try’s his best to be in Babygirl's life, and I love that.
I will link my full review here that I will post on YouTube later this month!
PS: Read [b:The Poet X|33294200|The Poet X|Elizabeth Acevedo|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1498766234s/33294200.jpg|54024746] if you haven’t already hehhehe