A review by wren_rainbow
If You Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson

3.5

This story is brief but does a great job of showing us the readers, the youth of the world different worlds that black people and white people walk and what that looks like when they come together in a romantic relationship. Jeremiah and Ellie’s romance was the typical first love: they see nothing but each other and can’t see past that. I wasn’t convinced about the love they claimed to have but can understand it from the youthful place it comes from. I knew the ending was coming but it still hurt when it did.