The Stats
📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚
BOOK: Miss Meteor
AUTHOR: Tehlor Kay Mejia @tehlorkay , Anna-Marie McLemore
Publisher: Harper Teen @harpercollins
Stars: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Published: September 22, 2020
The Review
✨ The Title/Cover Draw:
- I love pageant stories and this one has LGBTQ+ themes so I was really interested to read.
💜 What I liked:
- The story is told between Lita and Chicky, both learning how to fit in even as Lita is preparing to leave. There are a lot of community aspects to this story, as well as magical realism.
😱 What I didn’t like:
- Overall it felt like I would have liked more about where Lita and Bruja Lupe comes from and why.
💁♀️ The Characters:
- Lita and Chicky are childhood friends who have grown apart. Chicky’s sisters (Cereza, Uva, and Fresa) help Lita with her pageant prep. Cole and Junior are two boys who also join in the task.
🚦 The Ending:
- Cute and very satisfying
💭 Consider if you like:
- You like fantasy stories with some real issues explored.
All thoughts and opinions are my own.
📘 Summary:
There hasn’t been a winner of the Miss Meteor beauty pageant who looks like Lita Perez or Chicky Quintanilla in all its history. But that’s not the only reason Lita wants to enter the contest, or why her ex-best friend Chicky wants to help her. The road to becoming Miss Meteor isn’t about being perfect; it’s about sharing who you are with the world—and loving the parts of yourself no one else understands. So to pull off the unlikeliest underdog story in pageant history, Lita and Chicky are going to have to forget the past and imagine a future where girls like them are more than enough—they are everything.
Witty and heartfelt with characters that leap off the page, Miss Meteor is acclaimed authors Anna-Marie McLemore and Tehlor Kay Mejia’s first book together.