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

Angie Thomas

Start date: June 1, 2017

Finish date: June 30, 2017

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Jan 10, 2018 Cathy *Booklover4everandever* rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: ya-books-i-want-to-read, ya-books-i-ve-read, ya, books-i-own, fiction, kindle, ya-realistic-fiction

Everyone was right!!

This has been one of the most moving books I have read and I read a lot of books. It moved me to tears, made me smile, and made me cheer. It has made me think too, about some of the injustice in this world. And I am proud to say it has made my world expand and made me think.

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Mar 04, 2018 Nicole rated it it was amazing

Shelves: loved, i-own, cried, stand-alone, read-2018

This is a great book. It brings up subjects that everyone in the damn world should care about and unfortunately is forgotten by most.

It deals with racism and prejudice. About having a voice. About growing up in two completely different worlds and not being able to act just like yourself in both. Being afraid of being too white or too black at the same time. Does it even make sense ? It shouldn't, but it does.

I know that there are many reviews that will bring up how great this book is, so I'll st This is a great book. It brings up subjects that everyone in the damn world should care about and unfortunately is forgotten by most.

It deals with racism and prejudice. About having a voice. About growing up in two completely different worlds and not being able to act just like yourself in both. Being afraid of being too white or too black at the same time. Does it even make sense ? It shouldn't, but it does.

I know that there are many reviews that will bring up how great this book is, so I'll stop here talking about the book . I'll start here the discussion about the real life.

I ended up coming across many reviews that said that this was a sad reality in AMERICA. Really? Only in USA it happens ? People don't see black people with other eyes in other countries ( they don't look at a black man in the street at night and believe that he's a potential robber )? If yours doesn't please tell me where you live that I'm going there tomorrow.

The racism happens everywhere, because like it or not it is part of the world history and the first step to make a change is admit it ! So please people, don't play dumb and say America need to change. Everyone need to change.

I wanted to come up with an example : In Brazil, where I live a black councilwoman was murdered, many people think it was the police, others think it was a gang, because as she came from a poor neighborhood she must be involved in it. The truth ? No one knows. My truth ? When I first heard that she was dealing with dealers, I believed . I believed because it was easier. I am indeed ashamed of it right now, but I'm glad, because it taught me a lesson that even people we believe are good, may have the wrong ideas sometimes, we might.

There may be many cases like this throughout our life and we may stand in the right side, but what will it matter if we keep quiet waiting for someone make the change for us ?

Admit what is wrong. Face it. And remember that : "Sometimes you can do everything right and things will still go wrong. The key is to never stop doing right."

obs1: I don't everyone should love the book, but everyone should at the very least admit that literature needs more books like this one ( and I'm glad that as I search I can see that the theme is being more discussed).

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Feb 11, 2018 Abbie Lucy rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: books-i-own, favourites, 5-stars, highly-anticipated, 2018-bucket-list, 2018

I'm going to say something about this book that I don't think I have ever said before - If you are going to read at least one book this year, make sure it is this one!

At first I though I wouldn't enjoy this book and it wouldn't live up to the hype. Little did I know, I was completely wrong. I first started reading it and again I wasn't sure if i'd enjoy the writing style as sometimes I can't read slang dialogue very easily. Again, I was proven completely wrong. I adored this book from start to f ...more

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Apr 23, 2017 Irena rated it it was amazing

Shelves: contemporary

Amazing. Realistic. Heartbreaking.

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Jul 21, 2018 Lucy Mitchell rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

This is the longest time I have ever spent reading a book. The reason - it’s excellent and I savoured every word.

This is book is about oppressed people and how the oppressed should stand together and use their voices for good.

The book has many themes; issues of justice, friendship, family, personal and group identity in a straight-forward, relevant and sometimes funny way.

A must read!

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Feb 24, 2017 Linda rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

I read a 3 chapter excerpt and I'm already emotionally involved. I'm so glad that there's a book like this shedding light on today's problems with police brutality, the BLM movement and in the general sense, a YA book told from the perspective of someone other than a white person. Needless to say I'm highly anticipating the release! ...more

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Nov 11, 2022 Lynndell rated it it was amazing

Shelves: realistic-fiction, young-adult, stand-alone, high-school, coping-skills, justice, love, action, relationships, harper-collins

Starr lives in a rough part of town and after one of her best friends gets shot in a drive by shooting when they’re ten, Starr’s parents have her attend a private school that’s safer. Now Starr is sixteen and she witnesses her other childhood friend getting fatally shot by a police officer. Her friend did nothing to provoke the shooting. This is a powerful novel about much more than racism. It’s also about choices, bravery, integrity and helping others. This book has a lot of swearing which is a ...more

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Aug 03, 2017 Katie Quinn rated it it was amazing

"I’ve seen it happen over and over again: a black person gets killed just for being black, and all hell breaks loose. I’ve Tweeted RIP hashtags, reblogged pictures on Tumblr, and signed every petition out there. I always said that if I saw it happen to somebody, I would have the loudest voice, making sure the world knew what went down.
Now I am that person, and I’m too afraid to speak.”

I could tell you how much I loved this book because it is so timely and important. I could tell you I loved th "I’ve seen it happen over and over again: a black person gets killed just for being black, and all hell breaks loose. I’ve Tweeted RIP hashtags, reblogged pictures on Tumblr, and signed every petition out there. I always said that if I saw it happen to somebody, I would have the loudest voice, making sure the world knew what went down.
Now I am that person, and I’m too afraid to speak.”

I could tell you how much I loved this book because it is so timely and important. I could tell you I loved this book because in addition to being an important book, it's also a wonderfully well written one with complex characters who I didn't forget about long after I finished the book. I could tell you this book opened my eyes to my own white privilege, but I know that has all been said in the reviews already. However, it's all true and it can't be stressed enough.

Very rarely does a book perfectly handle multiple issues that are relevant to today's society but this one does exactly that. Through the eyes of the protagonist, Starr, Angie Thomas carefully navigates Starr's struggle to voice the injustice of her friend Khalil's death after a cop kills Khalil one night. Khalil is unarmed and was pulled over for...literally nothing. Unfortunately as these tragedies occur more and more in real life, this book is a powerful fictional voice for the Black Lives Matter movement and shows how these injustices affect families and communities. In addition to this main plot, Thomas also explores Starr's struggle as a person of color who goes to a white school by day and lives in the projects at night. This includes having a white boyfriend and enduring the attitude of a white girl friend who makes no attempt at understanding what minorities face on a daily basis. I really appreciated the other storylines at work here as well. There are so many times when Starr tells the reader that she treads between being the Starr she is expected to be at a white school and the Starr she is expected to be at home or on the streets. For instance, she is careful not to use slang at school for fear of being labeled as "the angry black girl." It made me realize how people of color must live this way every day as a minority. Stories such as these are so important and deserve recognition, and Thomas is a master at providing these stories and characters who are so often unrepresented.

I also really enjoyed the loving banter which occurs between Starr and her parents often. Her father's overprotective dialogue literally made me laugh out loud so many times, and there were so many heart warming moments when Starr's brother shows his dedication to his family as well. Again, these were all characters who felt so real and authentic that I thought about them long after I was done reading, and I know that I won't forget about them as I move onto other books. Everyone should read this book. It's just that good, and just that important. ...more

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Jun 25, 2018 Brianna rated it it was amazing

Shelves: young-adult, 2017-release-date, bipoc, favourites, there-were-tears-involved, life-changing, read-in-2018, top-10-of-2018

This was sitting at a solid 4 stars until it went ahead and brought me to tears. Equally heart-warming and brutal, The Hate U Give is an important novel that sheds light to police brutality – an issue that needs to be spoken about.

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