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The Hate U Give

Book Review:  The Hate U Give


My Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐⭐


"Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed.

Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters are taking to the streets in Khalil’s name. Some cops and the local drug lord try to intimidate Starr and her family. What everyone wants to know is: what really went down that night? And the only person alive who can answer that is Starr.

But what Starr does—or does not—say could upend her community. It could also endanger her life.

Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, this is a powerful and gripping YA novel about one girl's struggle for justice."

This is a very well-written book for sure. It has all the necessary things that I like in a book. Just enough characterizations, just enough number of characters, some laugh moments, some cry moments, and a whole lot of love and relationship issues. All in the backdrop of "Black Lives Matter".

The social justice issues discussed in this book are something that I do not want to get into. It has already been talked about and discussed a lot. It is now time to change ourselves and help those who are near and dear change too. I believe that it all begins with the correct sense of "right" and "wrong". There is a history that is backing all the social issues we are currently facing. I believe that only when everyone is ready to start on a blank slate will this issue ever be solved. There is too much baggage from the past on either side as of now. 

I am looking forward to reading the continuing parts of this series. I somehow felt there is a sort of a balance in this type of writing. I hope it carries forward into the later books. 

It also fits the following prompts: 

Popsugar Reading Challenge 2021: A book found on a Black Lives Matter reading list

Reading With Muffy: APRIL- A Book Featuring BIPOC on the cover


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