A review by jegan4
Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Prison-industrial-complex meets the Hunger Games. If you can’t read violence than this definitely isn’t for you, however, the violence isn’t celebrated, but is used to demonstrate how close we are as a society to this dystopian story.  I personally liked the different POVs throughout, and actually wished there was more background on some of the characters (like Hendrix and Simon J. Craft). The footnotes did take me out of the story from time to time, but I also liked the extra information. I’m glad I read a physical copy and didn’t listen to an audio version, as I’m not sure I would have liked audio with the footnotes. 
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