“I think you should write about the one that scares you most.Taking risks and making choices in spite of fear – it’s what makes our life story compelling”

This book was such a beautiful,important and compelling read that while your reading, you just get swept up into the life of such a amazing young woman called Emoni Santiago. 

Emoni Santiago at such a young age has had to make some decisions about many things in her life. Such as Emoni being a teenage mother and caring for her daughter who she just loves with every fibre of herself and would do anything for her. Emoni never knew her mother because sadly she died while giving birth to her,so she tries to connect to her mum through her recipes which she used to make and because Emoni’s passion is cooking and what she want to do for the rest of her life and So she can feel close to her mum through cooking. Her whole life she has been cared by her grandma who has always wanted to see the best for her granddaughter,and always tries to help with the baby so she Emoni hasn’t Got everything on her shoulders. Emoni isn’t with the baby’s father called Tyrone but we see them connect a little in this book when Tyrone has the baby on certain weekends.

Throughout this book we see Emoni embark on trying to go for her dreams which she has her ups and down with thinking about wether she can do it because she has a daughter now, and also trying to figure out if college is the best decision for her as she is set to leave school. Along the way she has such an amazing support system around who try and always push Emoni to do the thing that makes her happy which is cooking and becoming a chef. Which include Angelica her best friend, Malachi the love interest, her grandma and also her teachers Ms Fuentes and chef Ayden. 

The characters in the book I loved so much I just loved how most of them were really supportive for Emoni and just loved and cared for her, but as u guessed there were people in here that just wasn’t nice to Emoni such as Mrs Palmer,Tyrone’s mother who always has bad stuff to say about her and calling her horrible things, and also (even though she had a little redemption) pretty Lesley who was very jealous character at times. 

I loved the diversity in this book from colour and also sexuality which is always great to see in books especially even more with the side characters like that we are starting to use many more sexuality’s now which is a plus.

Overall this book was just a wonderful story that everyone needs to read and  so many books need to touch on more subjects like teenage pregnancy and so many more important subject matter aswel. This is one of my fav books of the year and also Elizabeth Acevedo is the queen Writer  and will always be seen  as a auto-buy author now .

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