Ace of Spades was no exception. The author herself said that she wrote this to allow Black queer kids to play the role of the spoiled rich kid with spoiled rich kid drama. "This world isn't ideal. This is a very thought-provoking and timely novel. The school actually sends a bunch of people to camp each summer to brainstorm bizarre ways to make the protagonists look bad, so they will be emotionally distressed enough to quit school, when the academy could just have a few teachers tank their grades or have the principal expel them or have a mentor give bad references.
Mine, on the other hand... She looks back at the teachers with her hand still placed over her heart, from when we sang the national anthem, feigning surprise like she does every year. This bullying and targeting unmistakably reflects and takes root in institutionalised racism and how it has shaped society and the future of Black people until this day. EDIT: THIS IS SO GOOD OMGGGG. I felt like I was holding my breath, getting ready for what would come next… only to be gasping out loud when I realized what was actually happening. It is also being a model student all year round, which I am sure the five of these students have been during their time at Niveus and will, hopefully, continue to be long after they leave Niveus behind. " I love Àbíké-Íyímídé's intent to highlight the struggles in which people of color go/went through and raise awareness. Ace of Spades had good ideas but fell flat with the execution.
The book touches on it in a way suitable for a YA novel. Abike-Iyimide wrote this because she wished she'd seen the PLLs and Gossip Girls with people who look like us. This book definitely feels personal and reading the author's story at the end (and a bit above in the Q and A) shows that she wrote this book during a difficult time in her life. Is there a thing like cover porn? Publication: June 1st 2021. This world isn't book was WILD. You can't just stick Twitter into the last ten pages of the novel and expect me to believe that this book is happening in the world as we know it. Some are sending money to their parents as well as working.
The LGBTQ+ representation and cultural representation were done really well. Devon Richards is one of the 17-year-old protagonists and narrators of the novel. I won't spoil it here, but if you're a white person reading this book (and you should), it can and will make you deeply uncomfortable. To tell you anymore would be rude, so you should definitely pick this one up for yourself, but I will say that this was *almost* a 5 star read for me. I also don't understand SPOILERS. It's very, very good. Suddenly she was one of the few people of color in her community; her lack of interest in partying and drinking meant that she often found herself alone. I think that as a reader it would have been easy to assume that the two would get along and effectively work together to figure out who was revealing all of the information about their personal lives; however, I liked that the author didn't make it that easy.
During the novel, he learns that his father committed suicide just after their visit. I promise you won't be disappointed. When you've read one book, you've read them all. Perhaps the author should have simply made Niveus set in a fantasy world, since nothing about it is realistic anyways. Without these, life at Niveus would still be an endless drudge of gossip, money, and lies. That's the difference between my rituals and these assemblies. Both Chiamaka and Devon dismiss the possibility immediately, given the reality of racism is so prevalent in their lives that it seems almost too obvious a threat to single out since it touches every part of their lives already.
I had tears after reading the epilogue. It isn't long before Chiamaka and Devon discover the conspiracy isn't as simple as locating one random bully. I just needed a little more explanation on a few bombs being dropped that weren't addressed again, and there's something that happens at the very end that jarred me a little and made me wish we could go back and get some answers before that happened. Pre review thoughts. "So that way the messaging can kind of carry over in different contexts.
I look forward to seeing what she writes next. Chiamaka, on the other hand, reads more like a character in her 20s. Prom is one of Niveus's many compulsory and meaningless events, and so, like a masochist, I watched them all night, from the benches at the side of the hall. Buddy read with Melanie ♡. People start to clap but Chiamaka doesn't back down. Would I recommend this? It is so well done and really captures the feel of the book.
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