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How can I describe this book? Absolutely compelling, lovely and a story that left me wanting more.
Elizabeth Acevedo's writing is just beautiful, and this is the first book I read that wasn't written in slam poetry. Acevedo is as great at writing prose as she is at writing in verse. She writes her characters in such a way that you feel they could be real people, living in this normal world, and her stories might have actually happened or are happening right now.
Acevedo writes the truth, the reality, not something you could only see happen in films and books, but would never think they could happen in reality.
'Witht the fire on high' filled my heart with Emoni's story of her life, where she has to balance being a teenage mother, finishing her senior year, living with her grandmother, deciding her future and balancing her relationship with her child's father, her friends and family.
I absolutely love this book and recommend it to anyone.