A review by beautyblob
This Place Is Still Beautiful by XiXi Tian

4.0

This was an enjoyable read, I haven't read a lot of YA recently and this was very YA, I would have loved this about 15 years ago and really identified with parts of Annalie's personality and how unsure of herself she was, brought me back to my teenage years! The story focused more on the family relationships and in particular the relationship between the two sisters whose points of view the chapters flit between and narrates the difference in how they both deal with the hate crime that starts the novel. Interesting to read both points of view and see it from both sides of the story.

I received a free review copy from the publisher in exchange for my honest unedited feedback.
Thank you to Netgalley, Penguin Random House Children's UK and the author.