I have seen this book, “Black Girls Must Die Exhausted”, floating around socials for some time now. I was gifted an advance copy of this upcoming release. The new cover has these vibrant colors that are so captivating and layered with a beautiful image of a Black woman with beautiful coils. In this blog post, I will share my opinions about the book.
*contains spoilers
Summary
Briefly, this book is about Tabitha Walker trying to juggle the stresses of work, family, and relationships. Early in the book, Tabitha learns that she is at-risk of never being a mother. She has to decide if she wants to use her savings, intended for a downpayment on a home, to freeze her eggs. Concurrently, she is under immense stress since she is juggling working hard to gain a promotion and maintaining a relationship with someone unsure if they want a relationship.
The author covered a number of topics showcasing how Black women are often pulled into different directions at the same time. This affects all aspects of their lives.
The Pros
This is a quick read. I would recommend this book to a reader that is in-between books. For instance, you might have read something really heavy and need something that has lighter subject matter. Despite the title, in my opinion, the content of this book is somewhat light.
The topics covered in this book are excellent. Women’s fertility issues is not widely discussed but experienced by millions of women looking to start their own family.
Honestly, the cover is the greatest highlight. The illustrator did a wonderful job of creating a captivating cover. This definitely sparked my interest in picking this book up sooner than I expected.
The Cons
I believe that the title is very misleading and could have been titled something differently. Black women do not die exhausted, our lives are exhausting from a myriad of aggressions that we deal with on an everyday basis. My biggest gripe with the title is that the only person to die in the book was a white woman. So in the quite literal sense, we don’t even see a Black woman dying exhausted. I am curious what the author’s intentions were for the title. I understand it is attempting to highlight the trials and tribulations that the women in the book experienced but there were other ways to convey that in the title.
Another con of this novel is that the story is a part of a three-part-series but this first book does nothing to keep me interested. The loose ends that were left really does not have me interested enough to read the rest of the series. I know that I probably will eventually pick up the others but it is not a priority.
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