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A review by sonialusiveira
Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas
4.0
"Living your life based off what other people think ain't living at all."
“Son, one of the biggest lies ever told is that Black men don’t feel emotions. Guess it’s easier to not see us as human when you think we’re heartless. Fact of the matter is, we feel things. Hurt, pain, sadness, all of it. We got a right to show them feelings as much as anybody else.”
"The apple don’t fall far from the tree, but it can roll away from it. It simply need a little push."
As the prequel to THUG, Concrete Rose is the story of Starr's father, Maverick, in his youth and how he became the father he is. Angie Thomas showed how we are all not what circumstances make us but what choices we made for ourselves to overcome the circumstances that might have hindered our growth, through Maverick' story. He was the son of Big Don, who even though in jail, his influences could have laid an easier path for the Lil Don, which Maverick did walk on but as he became a father at seventeen, he refused to become the father that his own father was, so he chose the harder path. His growth was very inspiring to read about. I also really enjoy the writing style, which the narrators rock on the audiobook.
“Son, one of the biggest lies ever told is that Black men don’t feel emotions. Guess it’s easier to not see us as human when you think we’re heartless. Fact of the matter is, we feel things. Hurt, pain, sadness, all of it. We got a right to show them feelings as much as anybody else.”
"The apple don’t fall far from the tree, but it can roll away from it. It simply need a little push."
As the prequel to THUG, Concrete Rose is the story of Starr's father, Maverick, in his youth and how he became the father he is. Angie Thomas showed how we are all not what circumstances make us but what choices we made for ourselves to overcome the circumstances that might have hindered our growth, through Maverick' story. He was the son of Big Don, who even though in jail, his influences could have laid an easier path for the Lil Don, which Maverick did walk on but as he became a father at seventeen, he refused to become the father that his own father was, so he chose the harder path. His growth was very inspiring to read about. I also really enjoy the writing style, which the narrators rock on the audiobook.