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Sep 04, 2019penelopegomez rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
I actually really liked this book, but the reason I'm going to say this book is "JUST OKAY," is because it took me around three fourths of this book, to actually decide that I liked this novel. If this book wasn't required reading for me, I probably wouldn't have finished it... Angie Thomas spent a lot of this book hyping up the plot lines, and eventually towards the end all the pieces come together, but this book was just a little too slow for me. Also I will say that this book was really hard for me to relate to because the main character Bri is an aspiring Rap artist. There were A LOT of Rap song references throughout the Novel... In all honesty I just didn't get all of the references. There was a particular scene where Bri is involved in a rap battle and in this battle Angie Thomas kept referring to beats from other rap songs to use as her back drop for the battle. I didn't have a clue what Angie Thomas was talking about! I mean I could have looked up a couple of music videos on YouTube in order to get the references... but I'm just too lazy to do that. I probably only got 1 reference out of the like 20 references she uses through out this novel... I want to say this is still a good book and that it had A LOT more going on, then just Bri pursuing a career as a female rapper. For example there is high school drama, a really cute love interest, and a lot about her family dynamic, which was all really interesting. This book is really good, it's just not going to be a book everybody can relate to easily, especially if your not really that into rap. Lets just say the rap career was the least interesting thing in this novel, I personally found all the "side plot lines" much more entertaining. Also I think if I had listened to the Audio Book version, instead of reading the physical book, I probably would have had a better experience with this book.