Miss Meteor audiobook

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Things this book has:- fantastic pansexual rep- casual and heartfelt trans rep- friends-to-lovers TIMES TWO- beauty pageant shenanigans - sibling love/hate/endless support- characters making mistakes and GROWING from them - the phrase "the snake-haired, coming-out Medusa"- my whole heart ❤

4.5 STARSAuthors’ dedication: To friends lost, then found again.This book was so cute! Our main characters, Lita and Chicky, are ex-best friends with a common goal: to take the Miss Meteor beauty pageant crown from the popular white girls. Lita is scared she is too round, too brown, and too weird to win, but she tries anyway. The book includes both pansexual and transgender characters, and it is sure to raise awareness for bullying and inclusion.

things this book has:- sapphic rep- casual and heartfelt trans rep- friends-to-lovers - beauty pageant - slow burn- lita- five stars and me telling you to read this!“In that moment, all four of us are meteors. We outrun the headlights going by in the distance on the highway. We outrun anyone who could see us. Only the gaze of the stars and the setting moon catches us.”

4.5 starsI'm honestly speechless. this was incredible. I'm not sure yet whether I want to give it five stars or four, but I'm leaving it at 4.5 for now because I think this is a book that will be either great or just really really good depending on how it sticks with me, so I'll need to revisit my rating. but wow. wow. this book was just phenomenal. one could even say 'out of this world'. I'm in awe. I wasn't expecting to love this so much, but I fell so hard for Chicky and Lita and Cole and now I just wanna cry because I love them all so much

This is my new favorite book! It is just perfect goodness in every way! I really don’t even have the words to describe how deeply I adore it, except that it makes my heart explode into a firework of rainbow glitter and confetti shaped like lil green aliens and also cacti!

Another win from both Anna-Marie McLemore and Tehlor Kay Mejia. Miss Meteor has all the atmosphere, magic, and wonder you'd expect from these authors. We see Chicky and Lita come back together and grow their friendship along some of the best supporting characters I've read in a while - Chicky's three older sisters and friends Junior and Cole (who is my absolute favorite and I love with all my heart) - as they fight to help Lita win the Miss Meteor crown. Seeing Lita and Chicky both really embrace their identities at the end of the story was my everything. And I thought all of the friendship moments during pageant prep and the romances we see were all stellar. The reason this gets 4 stars instead of 5, is that while I thought the beginning was strong, and the last 1/4 was five star perfection, I found the middle of the story to be a little slow for my liking. But overall, I highly recommend Miss Meteor if you're a fan of either author's previous work, I don't think you'll be disappointed. Trigger warnings for racism, specifically against the Latinx community,homophobia and transphobia. I received a copy of the book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

Star Rating: —> 4 StarsThis was so great in so many ways— highly highly recommend; RTC

I always find it more difficult to write a review about a book that I adored than one I thought was only okay or disliked, but I’m going to try my best to explain just how much I love this book, because I feel that it’s so criminally underrated! Miss Meteor follows Lita, who has always dreamed of entering, and winning, the annual Miss Meteor beauty pageant, but fat brown girls like her are never meant to win. But when Lita’s chances of entering grow slimmer and slimmer, she enlists the help of her ex-best friend, Chicky, and her three older sisters to achieve this dream before it’s too late!I’ve not read anything by Tehlor Kay Mejia or Anna Marie McLemore prior to reading this book (although, rest assured, I am remedying that!), so I went in with a completely open mind. This also meant that I couldn’t tell who had written which character, not that it mattered to me as I loved them both equally, but it does make this review a little harder when it comes to reviewing the writing style! There were some differences between the writing in Chicky’s POV and Lita’s POV – Lita’s felt more like the lyrical, flowery prose you so often see in magical realism novels, whereas Chicky’s felt much more like your classic contemporary novel, and I suppose in that way it was very fitting to the characters!Though this takes place in New Mexico, it is set in a completely fictitious town, and I think both authors described it so beautifully and vividly. It was so easy to picture the dry, cavernous desert where the meteorite that gave the town its name landed, juxtaposed with the modern, sophisticated town (albeit with the tiny Meteor Meteorite Museum looking a little scruffy and out of place!). I loved Selena’s diner with its family feel and strange but delicious-sounding recipes and all the different cacti even had their own personalities! I could practically feel the arid desert heat emanating from the pages!The plot is extremely captivating and really pulls at your heartstrings. Three of the main characters deal with quite a lot of bullying and prejudice against them – Chicky for her sexuality and race, Lita for her race and size, and Cole for his gender – and so this really does feel like the underdog’s story. The characters felt so real that you find yourself rooting for them throughout, and, consequently, their pain becomes that of the reader as well. Everything about the plot felt so realistic, and I can definitely see this being perfect movie material (or is that just wishful thinking?)! The beauty pageant was hilarious and heartfelt from beginning to end, and even the silly not-quite-a-sport storyline was so engaging! The book does deal with the characters facing a lot of adversity, such as racism, xenophobia, transphobia, homophobia and financial insecurity, but all in all the story is extremely hopeful. It’s about finding yourself and being so proud of your identity. It’s about friendship, and love and about the connections we make with people. It’s an extremely beautiful book and the magical realism elements never felt unrealistic or over the top, and I think just added to how connected I felt to the story and the characters.Speaking of the characters, they are what made me love the story so much! I felt that Lita was extremely relatable as a fat person myself. Yes she is fat, yes she faces fatphobia, but she never lets that stop her for going and getting what she wants. She’s very sweet and very dreamy (if a bit ditzy at times!) and I think she’s a character that so many people will love! Chicky has been bullied for years for her sexuality and has closed herself off to everyone around her, but we see her opening up and being proud and vulnerable throughout the book and it’s so wonderful to see. I really loved both Cole and Junior (maybe some men do deserve rights) so so much and seeing them take back and own there narratives was so powerful! Plus, it features two friends to lovers romances which is everything my little heart craves!All in all, this book was gorgeous and amazing and I cannot recommend it highly enough! It has quickly become a new favourite that I will be revisiting time and time again and I really hope that you decide to give it a go too!

4.5/5CW: transphobia, xenophobia, homophobia, bullying, underage drinkingRep: trans character, pan MC, Latinx characters, You know what makes me softer and mushier than baby food? Stories that revolve around wholesome friendships overcoming all odds, even one friend slowly turning back to stardust.Lita, Chicky, Junior, Cole, and Chicky's wonderfully strong-minded sisters make for a dynamic cast of characters that are now all my children and deserve all the happiness in the world. Tehlor and Anna-Marie went all out not only on their two main characters but also on their friends. Each of them had something going on and each of them supported each other and helped each other grow. This was the realest bunch of fictional friends I've seen in a long time. They're messy and imperfect and doubt themselves and their place in the group, but they also learn from their mistakes and move forward. Honestly, I don't think I've cried this much from the sheer friendship feels in I don't know how long. And did I mention that we get friends-to-lovers not once, but twice and in such a natural, clumsy way that I'm not even upset about it? Cause that happens too!I loved the beauty pageant shenans and how the girls (besides Kendra) weren't super catty toward each other. I'm so glad we're starting to move away from the girl on girl hate (and Kendra wasn't even hating on Lita for pageant reasons and was lashing out as her way of protecting her brother, Cole [spoiler alert: that's not for her to decide and he makes that clear]). The other girls even try to include Lita outside of the pageant. I loved that while this story showed xenophobia/homophobia/transphobia, but it wasn't pain porn. It was more about being true to who you are and not giving a duck's butt about anything else because the people who matter, don't mind and the people who mind, don't matter.My only thing is, everyone in that small down uses Cole's right pronouns and calls him a boy, which is great don't get me wrong, but I'm wondering how some of these people who will do this and turn around and be blatantly transphobic in the same breath. It truly boggles the mind. Sure, it's probably because Cole started to transition at a young age and it's been stated that he passes, and I'm sure there really are people who be like that and it truly confounds me.Ah, heck, you know what? Imma bump this up to a 5 star. The one grievance isn't really enough for me to dock the .5 and I really, really loved this book.

this was such a powerful story about friendship, love and self-worth!!4.5 stars