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September 2019 Book of the Month YA Review
Book of the Month YA is a book subscription service that sends a brand new book for as low as $5.00 for your 1st month. You can also skip a month.On the first of the month, you log into your account and choose between five different books, picked out by Book of the Month Judges. Choose from the best new YA fantasies, adventures, romances, and coming-of-age stories. There are authors, editors and more on the judging panel. You must make your selections by the 5th, or Book of the Month will pick for you.
Here’s what you get with a membership to BOTM YA:
❃A book of your choice for $14.99 / month
❃Add extra books to your shipment for $9.99 each
❃Skip any month you want
❃Free shipping, always
Book of the Month ships in a hot pink box.
First Look
Like the regular Book of the Month subscriptions, each book is hardback and ships on a cardboard insert wrapped in plastic. Book of the Month works to ensure you get a book in perfect condition every month.
I wanted to grab this book because it deals with some pretty heavy issues, but ones that young people deal with regularly. A girl is raised in a religious home that doesn't support her relationship with another girl. She is going to live in the USA from Trinidad and meets Mabel.
Summary: Trinidad. Sixteen-year-old Audre is despondent, having just found out she's going to be sent to live in America with her father because her strictly religious mother caught her with her secret girlfriend, the pastor's daughter. Audre's grandmother Queenie (a former dancer who drives a white convertible Cadillac and who has a few secrets of her own) tries to reassure her granddaughter that she won't lose her roots, not even in some place called Minneapolis. “America have dey spirits too, believe me,” she tells Audre.
Minneapolis. Sixteen-year-old Mabel is lying on her bed, staring at the ceiling and trying to figure out why she feels the way she feels–about her ex Terrell, about her girl Jada and that moment they had in the woods, and about the vague feeling of illness that's plagued her all summer. Mabel's reverie is cut short when her father announces that his best friend and his just-arrived-from-Trinidad daughter are coming for dinner.
Mabel quickly falls hard for Audre and is determined to take care of her as she tries to navigate an American high school. But their romance takes a turn when test results reveal exactly why Mabel has been feeling low-key sick all summer and suddenly it's Audre who is caring for Mabel as she faces a deeply uncertain future.
Final Thought: This is a very interesting book and an easy read. I loved my selection and my son loved the cookie and pins. This is a great book subscription box for young adults to enjoy reading. Get your 1st book for $9.99 when you use the code GROW.
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