A review by mbstpw23
Watch Us Rise by Ellen Hagan, Renée Watson

2.0

I enjoyed this book due to Jasmine’s POV, and it was an easy/fast read, but that’s about it. Chelsea as one of the protagonists was very annoying and hard to like; she whined about everything and when others pointed out her feminism was not intersectional or that she was selfish/self-centered, instead of reflecting and growing, she became angry and brushed it off. She did not grow as a character what-so-ever.

This book had the potential to be great. Everyone starts somewhere, so the focus of the book could have been Jasmine and Chelsea’s journey as they learned and grew as feminist throughout the book, but unfortunately the focus of the novel was not that.