Hello, everybody, so today I wanted to
make a video about the recent YA
books that i have read. These are mostly
all new releases or within the last
couple of months, except for one, and yeah
I'm excited so let's get talking about
some books. The first book I read
recently was actually book that came out
last year last June and it's if I was your
Girl by Meredith Russo. If I was Your
Girl is the story of a transgirl named
Amanda who moved to a new city to live
with her father after a traumatic
incident while she was living with her
mother. She goes to new high school, meets
a new boy, meets friends and essentially
it's just kind of a coming-of-age type
high school romance YA romance, but
told from the perspective of a trans
girl which completely changes the game.
This is an ownvoices novel and I also
think it's really important to take into
account the message it's on the back of
the ARC that I have here that I got last
year, but I think it's the author's note
at the end of the book, which is
essentially saying that this is not
every trans persons experience. This is a
really almost idyllic version of a trans
persons experience who comes out and a
lot of people are accepting and for the
most part a lot of the close people to
Amanda are really kind and understanding
in certain ways. Russo has also given a
message to her transreaders saying that
this is not everyone's experience, that
if your experience is different, it's
completely valid and completely your own and I
just think that was really important and
something that I want to mention before
talking about this book really. I'm really
happy this book exists because while it
is obviously never the responsibility of
transpeople to tell cispeople how to
behave and the correct questions to ask
and the way to talk about the trans
experience as a whole, this is a really
accessible way and there are
conversations between Amanda and some of
her friends that are just really
thoughtful. Overall, I think this is just
a really important step in young adult
literature. This is one of the first
books I've ever read from the
perspective of a transgirl and I think
it's really important to have that in
young adult literature because it makes
it accessible for younger readers trying
to learn about other people's
experiences. Again, I'm not trans so I
can't really speak to the representation
but I do think the author has gone
out of her way to make it clear that
this is one representation of a trans
experience and that, yeah, I think that's
really important and I think it's really
interesting and I enjoyed
this read. The next book I read is a book that
I've heard a lot about here on booktube
and it's The Sun is Also a Star by
Nicola Yoon. You may know from my
February reads video that I had some issues,
quite a lot of issues, with Everything
Everything and the more I've read into
it, the more issues that actually have
with Everything, Everything so I was
hesitant going in this, but I really
enjoyed this much more than I did
her first, Yoon's first novel. The Sun
is Also a Star is the story of Natasha,
whose family is going to be deported
back to Jamaica on the evening of this
book. The entire story, this whole story takes
place, more or less, within one day. She's
trying to find out a way to not be
deported and through her search she
meets a boy and a romance ensues. I
really liked this book. I love the
contrast and the parallels used
constantly throughout the novel.
Natasha's pragmatism versus Daniel's
idealism, the impact that one little
action has on one person and the major
impact it has on another person. There
was a really interesting parallel
between two different characters, one
almost getting hit by a car and one
getting hit by a car and the way that
impacts both of their choices from there
on out. It's just, it's-it's it was a
really interesting story. It is a story of
giving yourself and those around you a
second chance. I've seen a lot of
criticism on this book saying that it's
unrealistic that Natasha would spend her
very last day in the country with a
complete stranger and I totally
understand that but I also feel like
that's exactly what Natasha I needed at
this point in her life. Her best friend
is across the country, she's recently
gone through a breakup, she's having all
these problems with her family and she
doesn't necessarily trust them right now.
She feels betrayed and I understand how
it would take meeting a stranger and
getting to know a stranger and being
vulnerable with a complete stranger to
kind of work through what she's been
kind of bottling up inside. Though maybe
that's just me projecting because I feel
like I've done that a lot where I've
been holding things in for so long and
then I meet someone and it just clicks
and suddenly I'm spilling out my guts so
maybe that's just me but I really
thought that resonated and I thought
that was really interesting. The whole story
is really self-aware about how wild it
is that two teens would meet and fall in
love in one day and the characters
consistently make fun of that idea and
they're really self referential about
that idea both in the dialogue as well
as in the internal monologue's of the
characters which I just found really
entertaining but I also feel like that
was really important the story because I
do feel like it's easy to fall in love
when you're in it you're a teenager. You
have so many emotions and how
quickly you feel like you've fallen in
love and how quickly emotions come and
go and I I don't know I think it was
more believable than a lot of other
people do in terms of perspective and
the teenager experience. I'm super
interested in the idea of the American
dream and I thought this is a really
interesting and different take on the
American dream. I love how their stories
play out. I didn't really need the very
last part of the epilogue, if you've read
the book you know I'm talking about. I
didn't really need that but I do really
love it. Also, quickly I will mention i
forgot to mention it earlier i think
that a lot of this book has told from
the perspective of people that Natasha
and Daniel just happened to go past or
have like a brief exchange with and I
thought that was really powerful. I loved
those chapters. i really like multiple
perspective novels. I just thought this
novel worked really well and there are a
lot of different elements that really
worked for me and I know they didn't work
for other people, but I like this a lot.
Pals, this video's can be really long. I
thought it'd be short but I've just- I'm
talking a lot. i'll try and speed things
up. The next book i have here is We Are
Okay by Nina LaCour and this is a story
of a girl who's just gone off to her
first semester at University after
dealing with a really traumatic
experience. She's grieving, she's confused,
she's going to really transitional point
in life and it rolls around to be winter
break and she's completely alone on the
campus. She's left everything she knows in
California and is in upstate New York, I
believe it is, and she's just alone and
the bleakness of the setting mixed with
the winter storm that blankets everything
with this kind of quietness and oh my
gosh this was so great. This is the first
book i've read by Nina LaCour and it
will not be the last. I think her writing
worked so well with the narrative and I
loved the characters in this book i ah
man i just love Marin. i love the way she
saw the world. A lot of people have
talked about how this is really dramatic
and how they don't like Marin because
she overreacts and things like that. I
felt everything was really justified and
I loved her story and this is just, this
is one of my favorite books i read in a
really long time and i want to reread it
already. I thought it was really
cathartic. I just I think this is great.
The next one I have here is one that I
briefly mentioned in my body is in
singularity video and that is The Hate
U Give by Angie Thomas. You've probably
heard a million things about this book,
let's be real, but it is a Black Lives
Matter story told from the perspective
of a teenager who sees her one of her
best friends
shot by a cop and she's the only witness.
The book then follows her experience going
between her school, which is really quite
white and getting that white perspective
and then going back to her neighborhood
which is entirely black and the
different sides of that narrative. As I
talked about before, it explored the
singularity and importance of each
individual life and I just really like
the perspective it took. I also really
like the way that Starr speaks. She goes
between the way she speaks with her
family and her friends in her
neighborhood versus the way she speaks
when she goes to school. It felt really
realistic and authentic, for better or
worse, it really riled me up, I just, oh
man. Really engaging novel, if you haven't
read this already you're going to want
to read it. It's really thoughtful and
great and it's going to be a classic so
get on it, you know, early. The next book I
listened to on audiobook because I
really want to buy the US edition when I
go back to the States and that is Under
Rose-Tainted Skies by Louise Gornall.
Under Rose-Tainted Skies is the story of
a teenage girl who is both agoraphobic
and OCD and it just- you're really inside
of her head throughout her journey
with mental illness. I feel like this was
a better version of what Everything
Everything was trying to be. Essentially,
she meets the boy next door it just kind
of explored her relationship with her
mental illness, with herself, with her
mother, and also with this boy she meets.
He kind of comes into her world but
doesn't try to change her at all. It's a
very introspective novel. Trigger warning
for assault self-harm, there's a lot of
that in this book, as well, and I don't
think it's on the dust jacket or
anything, so please be wary. It was
just really powerful getting into mind
of someone with a mental illness that
I've never suffered from and seeing how
that plays out into her everyday life.
This is also an own voices novel.
And the final book I have to talk to you
about today is what I finished last
night, so it's going freshest in my mind
and that's Radio Silence by Alice Osman.
Radio Silence is the story of Francis who
is the head girl, always top of her
class, really focused on getting into
Cambridge, spends all of her time, you know,
working towards her grades except for
her secret life which is as a fan artist
on tumblr. She is a massive fan of this
YouTube podcast, kind of along the lines
of Welcome to Night Vale, called Universe
City and Radio Silence is actually the
host. At the very start of the novel
Radio Silence reaches out to Francis to
do some fanart for the podcast itself
but what's interesting about this novel
is that it
does deal a lot with that internet
culture and it's kind of a perfect time
capsule of internet culture, which was
really fun but without being obnoxious
and also while dealing with so many
other issues. It really is a story about
relationships. there's a relationship
between Francis and her mother, Frances
and her best friend, Francis and a friend
that she used to have who's disappeared,
her best friend and their best friend's
mother, it's just like all these
different relationships going on and
it's just- Ah, I loved this novel.
The whole thing fell really authentic and
real and the characters are imperfect in
the most perfect way, I guess. The main
character is bisexual one of the main
characters is on the ace spectrum, which
makes it really interesting and they
actually talked about that a couple
times throughout the novel. something
that was a little bit off was that
Francis is mixed race, she is half
Ethiopian but she doesn't have any real
connection to her Ethiopian heritage
because it was her father who she
doesn't really see very often. Alice
Oseman is not Ethiopian and so
it wasn't really touched upon, I can't
speak to Ethiopian representation but I
just thought that was kind of odd. But on
the whole I think this is a fantastic
novel, it comes out in the US I think
March 28. I really recommend you check
it out if you're into internet culture
because it's so much fun and it really
is a time capsule. I don't know how well
this is a novel will age, but for now it's so
fun. I just care so much about this cast
of characters, like every character that
comes into this book I care about which
is rare. And that is all for me. Sorry
this video is really long. I'll try to edit
down as much as humanly possible but I
super recommend you check all of these
out, especially The Hate U Give, it's
going to be a really massive novel this
year. We Are Okay is amazing, I love it. It's
one of my favorite books ever now and i
love Radio Silence as well but all of
them are just so good and relevant. They're
all really quite relevant. Thank you all
for watching, let me know what YA reads
you think I should pick up next. I have a
small pile, a small ever
growing pile so yeah. Bye.
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