A review by mjfmjfmjf
Love Is the Drug by Alaya Dawn Johnson
3.0
I started reading this book so long ago. I put it down. I read other things. I came back to it and read it very slowly.
This is the first book I read intentionally for the Andre Norton Award for SF or Fantasy YA, and the 3rd book for that book that I'm reviewing for goodreads. I figured, there are only 11 of these books, how long could it take?
This is basically a plague book set in DC as seen through the eyes of a black female senior in an expensive prep school. It is so many worlds that I'm not in and not especially interested in. Throw in disinterested absent parents and a conspiracy and evil shadowy government figures and it is beyond off the rails.
And yet the characters are interesting and seeing the world from a way different perspective is diverting if not necessarily enjoyable.
This is the first book I read intentionally for the Andre Norton Award for SF or Fantasy YA, and the 3rd book for that book that I'm reviewing for goodreads. I figured, there are only 11 of these books, how long could it take?
This is basically a plague book set in DC as seen through the eyes of a black female senior in an expensive prep school. It is so many worlds that I'm not in and not especially interested in. Throw in disinterested absent parents and a conspiracy and evil shadowy government figures and it is beyond off the rails.
And yet the characters are interesting and seeing the world from a way different perspective is diverting if not necessarily enjoyable.