Mallory's Reviews > Thirsty

I loved We Deserve Monuments so I knew I was going to need to read this one. While the tone of this book is very different the relationships between the characters are so real and live I was drawn into the story. I will say with this book I didn’t love the main character. She was hard to like, but that fit with the themes the book was trying to examine. This book tackled teenage alcoholism, toxic relationships, racism, and gender identity. Blake and her girlfriend Ella have one goal for the summer: get into the exclusive Serena Society. Ella doesn’t have much to worry about her mother is a part of the society of trailblazing women of color, but Blake has a lot more to prove. Luckily for Blake she finds courage in the bottom of the bottle and when she drinks she feels like the life of the party. But not everyone sees the life of the party in her when she drinks and her best friend expresses concern and as much as Blake brushes it off her drinking starts to leak into every part of her life. This book was beautifully written. I loved the diversity that was present in this book.