Brimstone Journals

AI Rating: 3/10 - "The Brimstone Journals" is a YA verse novel featuring poems from 15 diverse high school students grappling with realistic teen issues like abuse, eating disorders, crushes, bullying, family dysfunction, and emerging sexuality (including a gay character). Diversity in race, gender, and orientation is present but organic to character backstories, serving the ensemble storytelling rather than preaching social justice or identity politics. No overt progressive messaging or DEI prioritization; focuses on raw empathy and human struggles in a pre-"woke" 2001 context.