Tuesday, May 13, 2025

Book review: Bright Red Fruit by Safia Elhillo

 Book description:

    Everyone thinks Samira is a bad girl despite never getting her side of the story. Samira had a plan for the summer, until a rumor goes around and she is stuck at home. The only time she is allowed out is to go to her poetry forum. She soon meets Horus, and she feels wanted. Now she is keeping a bigger secret and if it gets out, it will prove to everyone about what they think of her.



Book review:

    This book was very well written. Horus is a big creep. This book does fall into the trap of telling you things over and over again like it thinks you would have forgotten about them if it didn't keep mentioning it, but that was my one complaint about it. I have learned to like reading things written in verse. I didn't like things written in verse when I was growing up probably because of how I was taught about poetry and that it was supposed to be hard to read and the meaning behind each line was hard to figure out. This book and other books like The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo have proved that wrong.

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