We Deserve Monuments is my book of the year. Officially in all time top 5. I haven’t felt this way about a book since I read Felix Ever After. From the first chapter, the characters began shoving their way right off the page and I was hooked. First person is the primary POV of the majority of YA books but so rarely do I immediately feel like the narrator could be so be real and sitting right in front of me telling me their story. Avery was flesh and bone, captured in ink. I smiled. I cried. This book was everything. I love it. All of the stars to this book.