6/8/2023 0 Comments Living Violet by Jaime Reed![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She has goals beyond becoming the love interest of the mysterious-hawt-boy-stalker-du-jour. Whenever she's uncomfortable or trying to be funny she tends to speak Elizabethan, quoting Shakespeare (so cool). Samara speaks her mind, yet sometimes overanalyzes things. Thankfully Samara is smart, funny, wry and tough as all get-out. The YA genre seems to have gone out of its way to turn the clock back on strong and self-sufficient heroines, opting instead for weak, vacillating and co-dependent girls who have no reason to exist save as a foil for the attendant mysterious-hawt-boy-du-jour. Samara Marshall, the narrator and author of the above excerpt is the kind of heroine many of us who love YA and who miss the intelligent and take-charge type have sorely missed. This wry and witty observation opens up the amazing first novel by Jaime Reed, Living Violet and explains why it deserves more than a measly five stars. It's a great way to spend your lunch break." On the flip side, it's very entertaining what love will make people do. It's a philosophy that has kept me sane for as long as I can remember and helped me survive the weirdest summer of my life. Truer words have never been spoken, if I do say so myself. ![]()
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