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

Angie Thomas

Start date: April 1, 2019

Finish date: April 30, 2019

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Jan 07, 2021 akacya ❦ rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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

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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Apr 30, 2018 Rebecca rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites, kindle-books-i-own, thoughts-on-a-book, 2018

This was a fantastic read which I think is not only extremely topical and relevant today but it is very thought provoking. And the author does a brilliant job portraying these characters in what I think is an honest way.

The main character is Starr, a teenage black girl living in a ghetto type area where there is an increase in gang and drug related crime. Starr has witnessed first hand the fall out of when things got bad but this book is centered on the death of her friend at the hands of a pol ...more

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Aug 25, 2018 kaitlin rated it it was amazing

The raw honesty, the realism and the gripping characters make this book a must read. For an outsider looking in, it’s important to see both sides and try to understand the struggles and straight up disrespect that other cultures face. This book is incredible and thought provoking and everything I ever needed in a book. It’s so well thought out and well written, I would give it 100 stars if I could.

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Sep 16, 2017 Thecritic rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Great book about racism. The conflicts were mostly internal so it made the book very contemplative and deep. I loved the way the author showed starr's feelings and her shame of living in the hood, and then took it and transformed it through the book. ...more

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