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Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu
hopeful
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
I thoroughly enjoyed this, I want to shove it into the hands of all my book club girls at the school I work at and remind them how powerful their words and feelings are.
This is the sort of book I would've LOVED as a teenager, and loved now.
This is an enjoyable and easy starting point into feminism for young girls and why we need it rather than thinking that everyone should be treated equally.
One thing I really enjoyed about this book was how intersectional it was, a lot of the inspo for these teenage girls within the pages were audre lorde and angela davis and I think this is super important.
Some of the characters could've been more fleshed out, and I wished I could've gotten to know our MC Viv for more as she was kind of one dimensional in her fight for feminism (we didn't know what she wanted to do at college, we didn't know about her interests) I realise you only have so many pages to get your point across but I would've loved to have felt like I knew Viv and the other girls at the end.
I also wished we had explored with more depth the reason Viv started all this in the beginning... her mum! I wanted to explore their relationship more and have more of an insight into her mum and why she chose the future she chose and how their everyday life and her thoughts about feminism still effected how Viv grew up. I would've loved to see more of an in depth conversation from the end of the novel when Viv and her mum talk about Moxie.
I did feel triumphant and joyful at the end and I think teenage girls would feel very powerful in those moments.
I loved the emphasis on zines in this book, would love to read more books centered on self publishing and zines and that world. Also loved the mixed media designs in this book too! Made Moxie feel more real and tangible.
This is the sort of book I would've LOVED as a teenager, and loved now.
This is an enjoyable and easy starting point into feminism for young girls and why we need it rather than thinking that everyone should be treated equally.
One thing I really enjoyed about this book was how intersectional it was, a lot of the inspo for these teenage girls within the pages were audre lorde and angela davis and I think this is super important.
Some of the characters could've been more fleshed out, and I wished I could've gotten to know our MC Viv for more as she was kind of one dimensional in her fight for feminism (we didn't know what she wanted to do at college, we didn't know about her interests) I realise you only have so many pages to get your point across but I would've loved to have felt like I knew Viv and the other girls at the end.
I also wished we had explored with more depth the reason Viv started all this in the beginning... her mum! I wanted to explore their relationship more and have more of an insight into her mum and why she chose the future she chose and how their everyday life and her thoughts about feminism still effected how Viv grew up. I would've loved to see more of an in depth conversation from the end of the novel when Viv and her mum talk about Moxie.
I did feel triumphant and joyful at the end and I think teenage girls would feel very powerful in those moments.
I loved the emphasis on zines in this book, would love to read more books centered on self publishing and zines and that world. Also loved the mixed media designs in this book too! Made Moxie feel more real and tangible.