Catch The Voting Booth Designed By Brandy Colbert Visible In Textbook

story aboutteens who meet while trying to vote,

I found this super cute and fun and entertaining, I loved the little back stories within the story, Trigger Warnings for grief and death of a loved one,

This book was just everything, I think more than ever that this book sends some really important messages to the YA audience, Even the adult audience. Voting is important and voter suppression is a real issue, Marva is dedicated to helping people vote and encouraging youth that they can make a difference, When she saw that Duke was having trouble being able to vote, they spend the day trying find a way to finally allow him to vote.
This book takes place in one day and the pacing worked so well there were never any moments that were too slow or too fast.


While both Marva and Duke are, their families are so prevalent in their lives and, even though they skip school, they still have to answer for their actions.
I loved how close they were to their families in different ways and how they still had some struggles with their families they were dealing with, specifically Duke and his family.
Duke and Marva go to different schools and I liked how we got alternating chapters about their current and past experiences, While Marva goes to the private school and Duke goes to the public school, they both have some pretty similar experiences now and when they were growing up.


As a romance reader, I also loved the slow development of their romance and how Marva was struggling with her current relationship.
During senior year, teens definitely are at a time in their lives where they're evaluating where they want their futures to go and who they want to spend those futures with.
Marva had been dating her boyfriend for two years, but a lot can change in two years and she's not so sure who she's dating anymore.
While this book was on the shorter side, it dealt with so many important topics and definitely packed a punch, The Voting Booth is a timely and wellexecuted YA romance that talks about the importance of voting, the history of voter suppression among communities of color in the United States, political activism, and the daily experiences of Black Americans.
It's a cute story that also packs a punch and this would be a fantastic book to hand to a teenager wondering if their voice can make a difference.


The book takes place during a single day, but we do get some flashbacks to add context, Marva is excited to finally vote in her first election, She's passionate about political issues and has been working hard to help get people registered to vote, Duke Crenshaw wants to get voting over with so he can go to school and get ready for the gig he has with his band that night.
His brother who passed away fairly recently had been passionate about voting and activism, On election day, Marva meets Duke in line to vote and when he's turned away she offers to help him find his assigned polling place.
Things go from there.

Marva is Black and Duke is biracial, so we get some good discussions surrounding identity and what Black is "supposed to" be like.
We get discussions of grief, particularly with a sibling lost during a driveby shooting and the racial assumptions of that, There is also a tense scene where they are pulled over while driving, Everything is fine, but there are discussions of how one day it might not be,

Marva is having issues with her white boyfriend of two years as well, When they got together he seemed empathetic and cared about the same issues, but now things are changing and this allows for a great discussion of white burnout and the fact that Black people can't just decide to take a break from being Black because it's hard.
I'll also note that nothing romantic happens between Marva and Duke until AFTER that relationship has ended, which I appreciated,

All that to

say, it's a great book with a lot of important conversations tied into a cute story, Definitely recommend this one and hope it will get out to teens who really need it, I received an advance copy of this book for review via NetGalley, All opinions are my own, randomly decided to listen to this book and guess what I read it in one go, the fact that this book takes place during just one day made everything go pretty quickly, because there's always something happening, I really liked the way this book shows how important it is to use your voice and fight for what you believe,

thank you libro, fm and DisneyHyperion for the audio listening copy dnf, it's with a heavy I heart I am not finishing it, I really loved Brandy Colbert books in the past, but I was hesitant because this has lots of stuff I, . don't like One day romances are not my thing, and it's an educational kind of YA which would be fine except that I am not really learning anything from this since I.
. have a degree in this I wanted to give it a chance anyway since I love the author, but I'm not enjoying it so I thought better to dnf it now before I start to resent it.
I want to keep my good standing with Brandy Colbert alive This isn't just some forced romance in a day story, Marva and Duke feel like real people, Some of us were Marva back in high school or college, She's the Black girl who has to navigate white spaces while being the best face forward, She has to check her white boyfriend and friends because the color of their skin allows them to not understand the privileged they use every day.
They don't have to vote when the policies are already in their favor,

And Duke knows the importance of voting, It's been drilled in his head for years, But after all he's been through in life it's just not something he's as passionate about anymore, He's doing it to appease his mother while his band's big gig is the most important concern of his day, After his activist brother's death he doesn't want to be the voice of anything, But when Marva sees him get turned away at the polling place she's determined to make sure his vote counts,

Why hasn't Disney Plus adapted this to film This would've been the perfect movie for our current climate, Being set in election year already made it relevant, We're seeing voter suppression in real time and the media is ignoring it! The pandemic is being used to make sure that certain votes don't count.
This book discusses Juneteenth and it's importance, Many people only became familiar with it last month due to the spotlight placed upon it as white companies attempted to capitalize on the Black Lives Matter movement.
And best of all it's a story that calls out racism without focusing mainly on Black pain,

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sitelink blogspot . I probably chose to read this on the wrong day, because ANXIETY, if you're reading this in the future, I read it on the day of theUS Presidential Election I liked this quite a bit, but I preferred the moments when it focused on the actual voting/election bits.
There was another storyline that was brought in that focused on a missing cat and I just felt like it was really random and I really didn't care sorry lil missing cat lol.
It does also have a bit of a rushed feeling, but that's because it mostly takes place all in one day outside of the flashback moments we get.
I loved following a character who was so passionate about voting and having her voice be heard that she went to such far lengths to help someone else use their voice despite the obstacles that came with it.
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