The Jumbies

Great YA fantasy fiction. Lots of fun and color. I enjoyed it a lot!

I enjoyed this one. I thought the second half was better than the first. I just wasn't invested in the characters.

The last ten minutes of this audiobook saved the book for me. I can't exactly say why without spoiling.
It was looking like the Indigenous people were being made out to be evil. Evil has the ability to live in anyone but this not the case in this instance.

This was another great read. I've said it too many times to count now, Middle Grade is killing it.

This was powerful because it speaks to something that not a lot of us speak on. As a descendant of both Indigenous people and people of different parts of Africa, we tend to focus on the injustice of the genocide of Indigenous people, the enslavement of both Indigenous and African people; all while dismissing the fact that later on descendants of the African people partook in the overtaking of the Indigenous lands just as the colonizers did. I understand that folks had to do what they could to survive in a new land. Even now folks still have to do what they can to survive. It's about acknowledging that there were people on these lands first and doing what you can to honor them because their sacrifice has contributed to your survival.