A review by mikey_reads_zero_books
Bitter by Akwaeke Emezi

4.0

prequel to Pet, but very different. This book is definitely more mature than Pet. Still on the younger side of a YA audience.

The book is about a girl named Bitter who lives in some kind of boarding school named eucalyptus in the middle of a city named Lucille. The city is plagued by 'monsters', also known as billionaires and corrupt officials. Bitter wants nothing to do with the protests that are constantly happening. She is deathly afraid of all the death and destruction around her. All she wants to do is stay inside her room at Eucalyptus and paint. Until her artistic passion pulls her into the middle of the conflict.