My Week with Him

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Through her emotional journey, Nikki ultimately finds the love she’s always been missing and discovers the power of her own voice. After a painful betrayal by her sister and a heated argument with their mother, Nikki is kicked out of her home. The story features Black love, realistic characters, emotional conversations, and complex parental relationships. It's exhausting reading her take steps and make ways to get to that audition and get her life started, and then be dragged back to the place she wants to be least in the world. This was so beautiful - that she could acknowledge that her sister needs to un/learn the same things she does and that when she hurt her it was just an attempt to protect herself.

Loved the cover of the book cover which was full of figures and colours, which was totally mesmerizing, which is what attracted me initially.After finding this out her best friend, Malachai, tries to convince her to stay and spend the rest of spring break with him.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Ebooks fulfilled through Glose cannot be printed, downloaded as PDF, or read in other digital readers (like Kindle or Nook). For fans of I Wanna Be Where You Are by Kristina Forest and Counting Down with You by Tashie Bhuiyan.I loved how the 2 characters gravitated towards each other and not wanting to tell each other they had feels for each other for fearing they would be rejected again. The story works towards Nikki leaving for California to audition for a girl group, and her talent for music is very present in the book, but it's never the main focus. this book also did a good job of showing that you can see your parents as people who make mistakes while also not wanting to let them back in a position to hurt you once again.

We do get some insight into her mum’s own childhood experiences later in the book, which does humanise her a little. The two main characters story was well written and easy to read, it starts with Nikki wanting to go to an audition, but before she goes she has some challenges to overcome as her home life is total chaos , her best friend Mal has always been there for her throughout the tough times. I don't often pay much attention to the synopsis so I went into this pretty much blind; I expected a sweet YA romcom and although it wasn't quite that, it was incredible and I'm so so glad the author went in the direction she did! Which is such a kudos to the author's skill - that she's able to let her characters make mistakes without making them horrible people- absolutely love to see it. That relationship is also really cleverly contrasted with other relationships in her life; her friendships and her friends parental relationships.

I would have loved to see how everything went up to her signing her contract and if she would have stayed in CA or went back to Texas. will this week give her the last push she needs to leave for good, or will she find a reason to stay?