I will obviously talk about this in the actual video, but my issue with this book is that the languaging in it has not aged well. I have re-read many books, including YA ones, and this is the first one that used phrasing that made me downright uncomfortable. The R slur is used, a WOC is called an African Princess and regularly called caramel-colored, and someone's hair is mentioned as unlikely to become "nappy". There are some things this book did well, and the plotline is decent, but there is so much to unpack here with the languaging that I was genuinely uncomfortable.
Additionally, the anti-weed rhetoric fit the time this book came out, but it made me laughed at how much it aged badly.