LOVE Queenie!!!

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There's so much to say about Queenie. I am aware that I will never understand the challenges she faces as a black woman not just in her very white surroundings but her culturally rich Jamaican family. I do understand her childhood trauma, recent adult trauma, depression and anxiety and how those things can make you do dangerous things you're ashamed of before you even do them.

Queenie spent much of the book not seeing her own worth and trying to find it in awful men. With a family dynamic that didn't do a lot of communicating and therefore neither did she, with friends, coworkers and men.

Throughout all the back slides, Queenie is still someone I admire. I love her ability to still hold on to parts of herself throughout it all. Yes, she slept with that random dude that was too aggressive but she also told that other dude she wasn't going down on him. Her spirit never left, she just let it fade sometimes. And I love her spirit so much.

I couldn't have been happier with the end of the book and I really truly hope to see a follow up book with a happy and healthy Queenie. In a life she deserves.