Hello and welcome back to my channel I
am Jourdan and today I'm here to bring
you a stand-alone review
of The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
You guys heard me last month in my
wrap-up rave about this
and I told you guys I was going to bring
you guys a standalone review because it
warrants it.
But not only am I gonna do a standalone
review, I'm actually gonna do a deep dive
in a podcast
so stay tuned for that! But for today's
video I'm gonna give
a book review, spoiler free, of The
Vanishing Half by
Britt Bennett! Sometimes books get a lot
a lot, a lot of hype
and then you read them and you're like [meh] it was aight? So with this, because
there's so much hype, i was like
i don't think it -- I wanted to read it as
as soon as I could. Actually now i'm seeing it on
youtube quite a bit, but at the time I [June] I
was seeing it all over
instagram not really on booktube. It's
about
two twin sisters who are both very
light-skinned and come from this very
light-skinned town.
One of them chooses to live
as black, you know within the culture
that they grew up and identified with,
and the other decides to pass and goes
to become white
and the author says it's like two twin
sisters, one's black one's white
and that's really what it is but it's
really a lineage
way more than that. So we follow
their daughters Jude and Kennedy
one growing up as black and that one 
growing up as dark skin
and the other one who is white and has
no idea that
her mother is even black-- and you're
following that.
and then you're following Jude and her
love story with Reese
and it's like that's another-- you know
it's just so many layers to this
and what i love about the story is that
there's so many different characters and
so many different topics touched, from
colorism, racism, passing,
domestic--- there's a lot in this because,
domestic violence is talked about in
this. LGBTQIA+
is within this book.
There's literally everything. Oh love
LOVE! The greatest of them all, love is
within this book
a little bit of feminism and stuff of
that nature that's
incorporated. This--- i'm like really what
did Bennett not touch within this novel?
It deserves all the accolades, it
deserves all the praise, it deserves all
the hype
This story has so many elements but
it was all well woven
in together and it didn't ever feel like
it was doing too much. Sometimes you're
like
someone has a great concept in their
head but they're not able to tie it out
somehow Brit Bennett was able to tie
this out across
time, across states, I mean you're
in the south, you're in the northeast,
your west coast,
all this! And all these different
individual characters and
their different stories and you somehow
tie it out and wrap it up in one book?
I'm like astonished
honestly at how well this was done.
This did--- HBO did acquire the rights
to turn this into a series and i'm so
here for it because
the entire time I was picturing the
different people. There's a character
that we're introduced
to called Loretta! When y'all read this,
i'm not going to talk too much about it,
but I see Loretta and...
Loretta was... was that bih
she was that girl! And I
just am excited to see these characters
come to life.
Additionally you guys know that I
actually rented this from the library
electronically and I loved it so much i
had to purchase to own it! So you already
know
when i purchased something i really
really truly love it.
And not only did I purchase it to own it,
but i am going to reread this because i
feel like
because I was so anxious when reading
this because the story was so good and I
was like fighting sleep and
really trying to do it. I like pummeled
through. Like you know when you can't put
a book down and you just keep going and
keep going and keep going?
Because I just wanted to see how the
story unraveled. The second time around
when i'm reading this, I am going --because
i know how everything works out, i'm just
going to be reading and enjoying and
sitting back. And i'm definitely
wanting to refresh my memory again
before the series is released.
i hope i'm not over hyping this for
anybody. I really hope so.
But i really believe that this book is
so good that even with the hype you will
not leave disappointed.
I gave this five stars because there's
nothing i would have changed about it.
Honestly. I--
I know some people probably like-- I was
talking to one of my friends who
read it. The ending was a little bit for
them,
but I thought the ending was beautiful
and just
exactly how I would want something this
beautiful
 to finish. Again no spoilers, just know
that
I really love this book. If I had a
favorite character, it would probably
have to be Jude.
I love Jude. Honestly Jude and Reese Ii
would read their own love story. Like if
the author wanted to go ahead and
just do another book and just focus on
Jude and Reese and we really dive into
their romance
and their love?! W would be all here for
it. I would even be here for...
what was homeboy's name? Desiree's
man? I think it was Early
I forget. I would be even interested in
their love. I could.
There's-- this was like five, six different
stories in one book.
So i'm gonna stop rambling and save it
for the podcast when I talk
with Duane. So y'all i'm gonna try to
talk about that with Duane
and wrap up Black is King in there.
A discussion on that because these are
the two things that have given me so
much life
as of late. Okay well
let me know who is your, if you have read
this book, please comment below and let
me know
who was your favorite character within
the book?
What did you rate this? And yeah let's
just keep it moving and talking below if
you have any other
book reviews-- book reviews? If you have
any other books that you think I should
read
let me know. When you read an amazing
five star, it really
ups your ante where you're like "I
deserve nothing
less than the best! I deserve
this!". So i am reading five stars! Like i'm
looking for
other amazing reads that just bring me
so much life!
Yeah all right, well i'ma head out love
and light and i'll see you guys in the
next one
bye
