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Soul Food by Elizabeth Acevedo

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emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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emotional hopeful fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.5

I thought this was really simple, and I just didn't think it was that good, it felt really obvious to me from the start and didn't really surprise me, and it really felt that her just asking for what she wanted could have resolved a lot of things. Personally I quite struggled through this, it just wasn't doing anything for me. 😔

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hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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emotional hopeful informative inspiring

Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

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emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

This book was gifted to me by Kate from the book club I'm in as part of a gift exchange for Summer. This book has been on my priority TBR for the longest time, and I enjoyed Poet X, so I was buzzed to start this. I am so thankful for Kate for buying me this book as it did not disappoint.

This book is based on seventeen-year-old Emoni and ever since she’s got pregnant, her life has been about making the tough decisions – doing what has to be done for her young daughter and her grandmother. Keeping her head down at school, trying not to get caught up with the new boy Malachi. The one place she can let everything go is in the kitchen, where she has magical hands – whipping up extraordinary food that is beloved by everyone. Emoni wants to be a chef more than anything, but she knows it’s pointless to pursue the impossible. There are rules she has to play by. And yet, once she starts cooking, and gets that fire on high, she sees that her drive to feed will feed her soul and dreams too and anything is possible.

I think this is one of the first books I’ve read which involves a teenage pregnancy and it wasn’t so negative all the time. I just wanted to hug Emoni so much throughout this book, I remember what it was like in the months leading up to leaving school and having no clue what to do and never mind the fact that she has a child and wants to do something high pressure related such as being a chef. I loved the storyline and I found it so beautiful. I loved Emoni’s best friend and how she was so real with her but also had her own issues with her sexuality and her anxiety with getting into art school.

I didn’t like the short chapters; I understand why it was with the style of writing. But small chapters just drive me nuts. It's one of my personal pet peeves with books. At times, I felt like this book dragged mainly because there was no major conflict – yes, Tyrone was being a dick, yes, she was struggling to get the funds, yes, she liked Malachi and she didn’t know how to handle that, yes, she had daddy issues and her grandmother was struggling. There was a lot of repetitive information that I found myself skimming over. I would have liked one main conflict or one main bad guy besides Tyrone’s mother because there is protective and then judgemental and sexist.

I would have liked this book to carry on once we knew what her future was going to look like, I felt like a majority of the book was about what Emoni’s was going to do but I would have loved to see her getting settled in college and work and how it worked with Emma. Hopefully there will be a book two in this series whether it’s when Emoni is a full-time chef or Emma in high school.

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