You Should See Me In A Crown is a cute, lovable young adult fiction novel about high school student, Liz Lighty who starts a campaign to become prom queen of Campbell County and thus win a scholarship to the highly coveted Pennington college.

This book has all the key elements that work perfectly in books directed at younger readers; high school drama, crushes, short chapters, a greater emphasis on dialogue, all the pop culture references you could possibly want and it delivers all this with an empowering, intuitive narrative that celebrates black queer women. To that end, I think this book definitely achieved all it set out to do and would recommend it to the aforementioned group.

I did find reading this book to be an all round pleasant experience but it felt so average and sub-par as to be forgettable. This book had some of the cheesiest lines and clichés, it had the 'miscommunication troupe,' which honestly is the worst kind of troupe there is in my opinion and characters that felt like plot devices as well as a super predictable ending. However as a young adult novel, I thought it was solid and there were moments I thoroughly enjoyed so I gave it an average rating of 3 stars.