A review by originstorytoloveisdestroy
Blackout by Nicola Yoon, Dhonielle Clayton, Ashley Woodfolk, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas

4.0

I am so grateful I had an opportunity to read this novel filled with wonderful short stories. Each short story was very enjoyable in my opinion. I agree with some of the other reviews that many of the stories didn't leave a long-lasting mark, but they also felt extremely realistic like reliving memories, or watching an interaction between two people unfold before your eyes, which for me was a nice refresher from the more soap-opera-esque fiction (& YA Fic) novels I've read in recent years. These stories were also relatively quick reads which is nice for someone constantly on-the-go.

The only part of this novel I personally did not enjoy was the way they broke the short stories to be more time-line based (To better explain, they would cut a short story in half with another short story based on the time in which they were meant to occur). While this might be very enjoyable to others who read it; for me, it became slightly annoying to end on cliff-hangers and jump back and forth between characters. Ultimately, I took the time to separate the short stories and read them individually, after reading it in the intended format, and found this experience to be much more enjoyable.