cassiuscoded 's review for:

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

1.25

emotional hopeful slow-paced

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the characters are wonderfully fleshed out. the prose was tepid and plot trope-y. references a lot of keystone black activists with no thoughtful commentary on how their legacies affect the black community apart from militancy v nonviolence.

the minority cognitive dissonances are wonderfully portrayed though i did feel they should have been explored more

go read tkam or beloved... probably more profound than this book