booklover469 's review for:

Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas

4.0

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Angie Thomas is a master of character development and storytelling. Concrete Rose is a prequel to her THUG novel by telling the story of Star’s father, Maverick. Basically, Maverick is struggling to become a man as he deals with being in a gang, going to school, and having two babies by two different women. This story is not as suspenseful as THUG and many of the characters we already knew, but it answers a few questions about their past. Plus there are a few Easter Eggs into her other stories and her fellow author’s character names.