#BookReview: The Astonishing Color of After

The Astonishing Color of After

5 stars

Genre: YA magical
realism

Pros:

Addresses
the complexities of griefProvides
multiple cultural referencesUses
sensory poetic language

Cons:

Repeats
color themes that may be distracting

What an amazing
and heart-wrenching book! I’m really glad I picked it up. It ties in cultural
significance with the accuracy of feeling like an in-between girl straddling
two worlds. 



I love how real
the novel gets about grief and the ways we have to process it. Sometimes the
imagery is so fantastical, and there’s a very poetic feel about the whole
novel. You just have to enjoy the beauty of it all. 



I also thought
the romance was a cute side plot. Though I figured out what the main issue was
pretty much in the beginning, I liked getting trapped again in the ambiguity of
the teenage years.



The only minor
drawback I found was all the mentions of colors, which became overloaded to
me. 



A solid book
that explores despair and family ties.

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