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A review by suchonalways__
Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
5.0
"I look at him and I think about how we don’t know the people we think we know at all. How people who are meant to love you, leave you."
In the epigraph of this book, the author uses a sentence from Jordan Peele's Get Out. It's strange of me to notice it because I am one of those bad readers who almost always skip acknowledgement, introduction, author's note, epigraph and so on. But this time I did. I read the quote and thought there's no way this book can even come close to the movie thematically. I thought it would never be possible to shake me to my core with this book. And I won't lie. It's no Get Out. But it's also extremely good. Creepy, haunting, breathtaking and so dangerously brutal.
It's so weird that I did not like any of the protagonists and yet the book, the story moved me this much.
This dark academia young adult novel is not focused on the pursuits of knowledge. Rather it highlights the darkside of it, how mercilessly we have built a system that excludes people the system deems less. How knowledge, education, opportunities are denied to people they don't consider equal. How corrupt and unfair academia can be and is.
In the epigraph of this book, the author uses a sentence from Jordan Peele's Get Out. It's strange of me to notice it because I am one of those bad readers who almost always skip acknowledgement, introduction, author's note, epigraph and so on. But this time I did. I read the quote and thought there's no way this book can even come close to the movie thematically. I thought it would never be possible to shake me to my core with this book. And I won't lie. It's no Get Out. But it's also extremely good. Creepy, haunting, breathtaking and so dangerously brutal.
It's so weird that I did not like any of the protagonists and yet the book, the story moved me this much.
This dark academia young adult novel is not focused on the pursuits of knowledge. Rather it highlights the darkside of it, how mercilessly we have built a system that excludes people the system deems less. How knowledge, education, opportunities are denied to people they don't consider equal. How corrupt and unfair academia can be and is.