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A review by cgj13
On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
5.0
Damn can Angie Thomas write a good story. She really encapsulates teen life, that time when you think you can handle it all on your own, but you are still young and make a mess of it.
Tear it all down and this book is about finding out who you are and how you want to represent yourself to the world. And the mistakes you make on the way. Add to that, the pressures of who other people want you to be, and some who abuse their position under the screen of it being in your best interest.
Both of Angie Thomas’s books have the main character thrown into situations that lead to them being in the center of civil unrest. Both are pressured to be the epicenter of change. But that’s not always the easiest thing to do, or the place these characters want to be. Angie shows us how
That spotlight and the pressures affect her characters.
In “On the Come Up” Bri records a song in response to the unwarranted assault she was a victim of at the hands of the school security guards. The public loves it, and it fuels more than her rising stardom. She naively believes it was just words, but comes to see the impact her words have on others, even when that isn’t how she meant for them to be. This coupled with her coming to face with the fears and fight response that has been a cloud over most of her life.
Tear it all down and this book is about finding out who you are and how you want to represent yourself to the world. And the mistakes you make on the way. Add to that, the pressures of who other people want you to be, and some who abuse their position under the screen of it being in your best interest.
Both of Angie Thomas’s books have the main character thrown into situations that lead to them being in the center of civil unrest. Both are pressured to be the epicenter of change. But that’s not always the easiest thing to do, or the place these characters want to be. Angie shows us how
That spotlight and the pressures affect her characters.
In “On the Come Up” Bri records a song in response to the unwarranted assault she was a victim of at the hands of the school security guards. The public loves it, and it fuels more than her rising stardom. She naively believes it was just words, but comes to see the impact her words have on others, even when that isn’t how she meant for them to be. This coupled with her coming to face with the fears and fight response that has been a cloud over most of her life.