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The Upper World by Femi Fadugba
4.0

For those not in the know, this is one of the latest acquisitions by Netflix to make it to the streaming service. And I can see why. A YA mind bending, time travelling, science heavy read, with a likeable male lead who walks the rocky path that can lead him to be killed in the prime of his youth thanks to gang violence, struggling to make his way through high school and make something of himself and also to be decent man.

I will admit I did struggle with the first half of this read; as mentioned previously it is science heavy (despite Fadugba’s admirable attempts at dumbing it down - it just wasn’t enough for me!