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The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1)

Angie Thomas

Start date: February 3, 2021

Finish date: February 28, 2021

Discussion: BOTM

Discussion leader: Anushka

Why we're reading this: It won our special black history month BOTM poll
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Jan 07, 2021 akacya ❦ rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: black-authors, ownvoices, genre-contemporary, format-ebook, audience-young-adult, popsugar-2021

Starr’s dad said that names are important, and this is so true for her—she definitely shines bright, just like a star, even in the darkness surrounding her. Especially in the darkness. I love that she was able to find her voice through the course of this story—voices are a powerful weapon, as she learns. This was such a heavy and hard read (I had to switch to an audio recording for many chapters), but it’s so worth it.

Completed for the 2021 Popsugar Reading Challenge; prompt #20—a book found on ...more

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Aug 24, 2020 Rashi rated it liked it · review of another edition

It's not worth the 5 stars I'd given it earlier.

I'm not saying that it's bad, it's average. The writing is bland and the characters are one dimensional. The combination is not something I like. ...more

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Mar 18, 2017 Naaytaashreads rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites

“What's the point of having a voice if you're gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn't be?”

This review might get deep because I feel like there's so much I have to say.
What can I say? This book has so much power and pain in it.
When reading this book, I got anxious and nervous. It crazy how we all kind of knew where the book is going to end up. Because we have seen it, heard it and talk about it. It's something all of the society is aware of.
The characters in the book felt real. Like they ...more

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May 17, 2018 Sylvs (NOVELty Reads) rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I can definitely see why this book was hyped up. It seemed like this was the most talked about book in all of 2017 with even John Green saying that it was stunning. Now having read it… a year later in 2018, and definitely behind on the hype, I can see why people loved it. It had this fast-paced storyline, this sense of community and theme of family surrounding the drama. The only major problem I had with it was the street slang that I occasionally got stuck on but other than that I found this an ...more

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