Wow this book is clever I loved how Alyssa Cole managed to pull this off. Check out my full review here! :)

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Eerie, tense, thoughtful, clever, informative, thrilling, compelling, and mysterious

When No One is Watching was recommended to me by Sarah (at Girl On Books, just like half of the books I read). I’m not usually a person who likes to read any kind of creepy things at all, because I will literally have nightmares for weeks. That is to say I’m a huge chicken. Though this book had some creepy moments, I was (thank goodness) able to survive it!

Brief Summary: When No One is Watching follows Sydney, a girl who was born and raised in a historically Black neighborhood in Brooklyn. As time goes on, and Sydney grows up, she notices that her neighborhood seems to change every time a for sale sign goes up on one of the houses. This clever tale spins gentrification into the new monster, and makes us stare society’s evils down head on.

This book was written so well I was astonished the entire time. I loved how the author managed to make gentrification into the truest evil here. Honestly, I love when books make something we know to be bad into the monster. It’s always so clever and it makes a huge statement. It didn’t slip past me that even though there was a villain in here, the entire time I was tense because of racism and gentrification. It really made you look at the terrible harm that racism and gentrification causes communities.