It inspires and encourages you to be yourself. The writing is so beautiful and it speaks truths. I had to literally force myself to put this book down. I absolutely adored this book from start to finish. The story follows Juliet and the crazy people she meets along the way. But she does it the night before she leaves to Portland, Oregon for an internship with the famous Harlowe Brisbane. She is currently dating a woman and decides to not only come out to her family. Juliet Takes A Breath is about this Latina woman named Juliet. I received a copy of this in E-Book format from Netgalley and Riverdale Avenue Books in exchange for a review. Overall great first book and I am glad I happened upon it. I thought the character of Harlow was so well written in all of her flaws and the rest of the characters fit really well into the book. I will read everything she writes and I hope there are more YA-ish books about girls of color and their experiences navigating the queer community. It really gave me all of the feels and was made even better by getting to meet Gabby Rivera at BookCon in NYC this past weekend. This book is important because it lets little brown girls out there know that they have a voice and there is someone writing their stories. It brings back fond memories of being the only person in my family to leave the 'hood' and try something new and different and not knowing how that would look or feel. Juliet's story is important because it lets me know that there are other people like me out there. I was that way when I first came out and I felt utterly clueless. It was so nice to read an affirming book about queer, POC, nerds who had no idea what it meant to be a lesbian or feminist.

I am older than the character in the book, but when I was 19 I wish there had been more books like this one. This book was magical and mystical and all things fucking amazing.

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