A review by krystalicia_
What's Mine and Yours by Naima Coster

3.5

This was a random pick up from the library and I’m so glad I did! This book was interesting in that it was told from multiple perspectives and continued to jump back and forth in time which I enjoyed a lot more than I thought I was going to. What I didn’t enjoy as much was how the story was divided up. It followed two separate families and the majority of the book followed specifically the mother and daughter of the white/biracial family. While I did find the daughter’s story interesting, she and her mom (ESPECIALLY HER MOM) were annoying as hell. Like this was a book that very clearly showcases that not everyone should be a parent, because both of the moms in this story made me want to rip my hair out. I kind of hated what the author did to Gee’s character. He barely had a storyline and then it felt like they just used this Black boy as a tool to push the white family’s story along. It was still a pretty engaging read and I’d recommend it, but just know that the characters suck a lot of the time.