A review by kirstyreadsblog
Parachutes, by Kelly Yang
5.0
Content warnings: sexual assault, rape, racism towards Chinese people and Filipino people, sexual harassment from a teacher, bullying, xenophobia
I can’t remember when I first heard about Parachutes, maybe last year, but when I did I immediately added it to my TBR. I knew it was going to be a moving read. And I was right, I cried multiple times whilst reading it.
Claire is a “parachute”, a teenager who has been sent to America to study in high school without her parents. She moves into the spare room of Dani de la Cruz, who is a straight A student, with her eyes set on a scholarship to college. They don’t really get on with each other, but have more in common than they think when Dani starts to get private lessons with her debate tutor and Claire starts to see a handsome boy called Jay.
I knew that the author took a lot of inspiration for this from her own experience of being raped and how the university she was studying at dealt with it. But that didn’t prepare me for how much this would hit me. I’m honestly so glad there was a content warning at the start of this book because there are some really harrowing scenes that a reader definitely needs to be prepared for. My heart absolutely broke for these girls. This book felt so realistic
Continue my review here: https://kirstyreadsblog.com/2020/08/23/parachutes-by-kelly-yang-review/
I can’t remember when I first heard about Parachutes, maybe last year, but when I did I immediately added it to my TBR. I knew it was going to be a moving read. And I was right, I cried multiple times whilst reading it.
Claire is a “parachute”, a teenager who has been sent to America to study in high school without her parents. She moves into the spare room of Dani de la Cruz, who is a straight A student, with her eyes set on a scholarship to college. They don’t really get on with each other, but have more in common than they think when Dani starts to get private lessons with her debate tutor and Claire starts to see a handsome boy called Jay.
I knew that the author took a lot of inspiration for this from her own experience of being raped and how the university she was studying at dealt with it. But that didn’t prepare me for how much this would hit me. I’m honestly so glad there was a content warning at the start of this book because there are some really harrowing scenes that a reader definitely needs to be prepared for. My heart absolutely broke for these girls. This book felt so realistic
Continue my review here: https://kirstyreadsblog.com/2020/08/23/parachutes-by-kelly-yang-review/