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Dec 15, 2016 Amy! rated it really liked it

Shelves: adult-audiences, diverse-characters, zzz2016-male-authors, race, historical-fiction, audiobook, intricate-plot, latinx, young-adult, yalsa-hub-challenge-2016

This was really well written, really engaging, really suspenseful, and really intense. It's not super long, but it took me awhile to read because I kept needing to take breaks from it.

There are a bunch of interconnected stories, that primarily revolve around Latinx gang members during the Rodney King Riots. There's a lot of people just straight up getting murdered a lot. The author opens and closes the book with narrators who aren't involved in gang life at all, and the narrator at the end is a ...more

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Jan 25, 2016 Julie Trapp rated it it was ok

Thought this book was far too violent to get any higher rating. It was told in different voices in the aftermath of the Rodney King verdict. The brutal killings, crude language, home-boy language - all made it a difficult read. If it weren't for the challenge I would have quit after page 20. ...more

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Jan 11, 2016 Anna Chappell rated it really liked it

I really enjoyed all the ways the stories tied into each other, how it highlighted segments of the population so many want to ignore and told their stories.

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