DNF at 13%. I am so damn tired of trauma porn. The only Black books that get labeled as classics are all about hardship and I am sick of it. Yt ppl have romance classics like Pride and Prejudice and horror classics like Frankenstein, but this is all we get. 

The writing in this book is very pretty, but I refuse to make myself read a book with a scene explaining how a man raped and impregnated his daughter just because it’s a classic. 

The problem is that we let yt school curriculum choose our classics, so they try to make sure the only books we read are about us are books about slavery, poverty , racism, and just being downtrodden.

Sorry about the mini rant. I’m sure that this book is good, hence why I didn’t rate it poorly. It’s just not for me. I can’t take the trauma porn any more. I see it enough on tv, I don’t need it in my books too.