Diversity Spotlight Thursday is a weekly meme hosted by Aimal of Bookshelves and Paperbacks. Every week, we are to come up with one book in each of three different categories: a diverse book we have read and enjoyed, a diverse book on your TBR, and one that has not yet been released.
A Diverse Book I Enjoyed:
The Big Lie by Julie Mayhew A startling coming-of-age novel set in a contemporary Nazi England.
Jessika Keller is a good girl: she obeys her father, does her best to impress Herr Fisher at the Bund Deutscher Mädel meetings and is set to be a world champion ice skater. Her neighbour Clementine is not so submissive. Outspoken and radical, Clem is delectably dangerous and rebellious. And the regime has noticed. Jess cannot keep both her perfect life and her dearest friend. But which can she live without?
THE BIG LIE is a thought-provoking and beautifully told story that explores ideas of loyalty, sexuality, protest and belief. From Goodreads.
This book is terrifying, even more so when you realise that everything that happens in this book either happened when Hitler was in power, or happens now in various parts of the world. This book covers so many important topics, but one of them is how sexuality was treated under such a regime. It's an incredible novel; so thought provoking, and very powerful. Check out my review.
