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A review by maida
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
5.0
”What's the point of having a voice if you're gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn't be?”
I seriously cannot believe it took me three years to pick this book up. I’m sad I didn’t do it sooner.
This a game changer book. It’s been a while since I’ve seen such a big phenomenon as The Hate U Give, and I guess it makes sense considering how much it stands out… just by the fact that it tells it how it is.
I don’t know what it’s like to be a black teenager in America. And yet this book made me feel for its characters and rage against the injustices they were facing. I guess it came out at exactly the right time. It let me and other hundreds of thousands people see how unfair the world we live in is.
I’m not going to get into what I usually talk about in my reviews, like writing style, plot and character development because this book is so much more than all of that. The Hate U Give is about it’s message and nothing else. It seems kind of shallow to me to start dissecting it with the intention of bringing up stuff that it wasn’t trying to do.
Something I do want to mention is how much I loved the family dynamics on this book. They felt so real to me… well, most of this book felt very real to me.
I honestly don’t know what else to say. Everyone should pick this book up.
42. A book that was nominated for one of the ‘10 Most Coveted Literary Prizes in the World’
I seriously cannot believe it took me three years to pick this book up. I’m sad I didn’t do it sooner.
This a game changer book. It’s been a while since I’ve seen such a big phenomenon as The Hate U Give, and I guess it makes sense considering how much it stands out… just by the fact that it tells it how it is.
I don’t know what it’s like to be a black teenager in America. And yet this book made me feel for its characters and rage against the injustices they were facing. I guess it came out at exactly the right time. It let me and other hundreds of thousands people see how unfair the world we live in is.
I’m not going to get into what I usually talk about in my reviews, like writing style, plot and character development because this book is so much more than all of that. The Hate U Give is about it’s message and nothing else. It seems kind of shallow to me to start dissecting it with the intention of bringing up stuff that it wasn’t trying to do.
Something I do want to mention is how much I loved the family dynamics on this book. They felt so real to me… well, most of this book felt very real to me.
I honestly don’t know what else to say. Everyone should pick this book up.
42. A book that was nominated for one of the ‘10 Most Coveted Literary Prizes in the World’