A review by megatsunami
Love Is the Drug by Alaya Dawn Johnson

4.0

This book would make such a great movie! I kept picturing it on the screen while reading. Very enjoyable pandemic thriller starring an African American girl at a fancy DC prep school. Some secondary characters seemed kind of 2-dimensional (especially Paul and Marella) but the primary characters were believable and I liked reading about them. I feel the author's voice has matured since her first novel (that one had a more complex and original cultural setup, but was also harder to follow) and this novel is more tightly constructed. I would love to see her move into adult sci fi or adult fiction.