The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas (3/10🌟) This book has been on my tbr since before I moved to the UK. It seemed like I couldn't escape the hype, the reviews, the praise and so in typical me fashion I waited until the hype had died down before picking up a copy from the library. As someone who lived in the US through a lot of US news coverage of the Black Lives Matter movement the names Angie lists in the end are more than familiar to me. So is the code switching and the language that's used; it's all things I've read before and therefore I was desensitized to the scenes of violence. I knew what to expect when I picked up this book. I was neither disappointed nor emotional while reading this book mainly because this is yet another form of art with black characters that deals with race, grief, family and violence and to be brutally honest I'm a bit bored with it. The writing style is okay and the characters are multi-dimensional, but all in all it made me realis...
A blogg about the experiences of a Brit who's lived in the US for more than a decade and has recently returned to the UK.