A review by peeled_grape
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

4.0

This was fantastic. It surprised me -- this is a higher quality of writing than I expect from most YA books, and frankly, most adult books too. I know this ended up on a bunch of banned book lists, but ironically, I still think it was too nice to police. I get why. And maybe part of this comes from the fact I am reading this six-ish years after its publication and read it literally as the president encouraged white supremacists to storm the Capitol, but I would recommend it to the Haileys of the world who need to be pushed out of their current state of thinking. But this is fantastic, and necessary, and raises a lot of important questions, especially for people who have never needed or wanted to consider them.