Dhonielle Clayton et al's Blackout
We're reading this for book club this month, because a couple of us saw this interview and were like WE MUST SUPPORT THESE AUTHORS! I hesitate to say it has a Love Actually vibe because I don’t actually like that movie, but it does have a similar structure—a bunch of interrelated characters/love stories set during one night during a blackout in NYC, culminating in a big ol block party. I am generally pretty lukewarm on YA romance, but all these stories were super cute (especially the queer ones), and since they were short they didn’t bug me too much. :) For a minute I almost started a murder board to keep track of all the connections (siblings, BFFs, cousins, etc) but then I just let the whole community wash over me. It really does gel as one story. Really well done and a very fun read. A/A-.
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