A review by twistsandtomes
People Kill People by Ellen Hopkins

1.0

DNF. yeah, no. i couldn’t finish this. at first the message just felt a little heavy handed but not anything i couldn’t tolerate. i progressively became more and more uncomfortable with reading about white nationalists through a second person point of view because i’m, y’know, a person of color. then came the sexual assault of a child around page 140. i really can’t read this. the book has a good message overall (although it’s expressed in a hamfisted way), but it revels a little too much in the graphic stuff for me to be able to stomach it. all of ellen hopkins’s writing is like this for me, tbh. i don’t know what i was expecting to be different with this one.