The Poet X

As a Dominican woman I have never read a book about someone that is Dominican. I haven't seen myself in a character like I did when I read this book. I bet y'all already know what I'm giving this book.

5/5☆

The writing was beautiful, The whole book is written in verse and all of the verses make a story. I loved the fact that there was parts that were in Spanish and that the Spanish words weren't italicized. In every book that has a Latinx character, when they speak in Spanish it's always in italics. And this one tiny detail means so much to me and I know it means alot to other Spanish speaking readers.
I loved the characters, Xiomara, Xavier, and Caridad were my babies. Bro I even lowkey loved the parents. I saw myself in both Xiomara and Caridad because I've had that part in my life where I wasn't into going to church I questioned everything. My parents wanted me to do one thing when I wanted to do another. Almost everything Xiomara was going through I've gone through too. Y'all Dominican parents don't play, they crazy. But I see myself now like Caridad where she made a choice to go to church and is so caring and always has her friends back no matter what.
I am so happy this book exists because now Latinx teens can have a character to relate too. I didn't have someone like that almost every book I read as a kid were about white kids. And even though I did see a bit of myself in some of them. But it's different when you can fully see your self being represented in a book. And that's beautiful!

Representation is important.