4/5 (audiobook)

Tiffany D. Jackson creates another electric and invigorating story that infuses Brooklyn culture, hip hop music, friendship, and family all together.

"Let Me Hear a Rhyme" really caught my attention from the beginning of the story. I was interested to learn about what happened to Steph and how his friends planned to keep his music alive. Jackson wove a tale that encapsulated me as a reader and made me not want to stop listening until the end.

This is the second Tiffany D. Jackson book I have listened too, and although "Allegedly" still takes the cake, "Let Me Hear a Rhyme" was a close second.

Jackson did a great job of making her story both crazy and realistic - in that three young, high school-aged teens (Quadir, Jarrell, and Jasmine) manage to, through their own determination and perseverance, create a name for their friend (Steph) who was murdered and was never able to live his dream of producing music. The story did not feel super fictionalized, and I really appreciate that aspect because it makes a contemporary story more

The biggest thing I did not like about the audiobook was the amount of shifting in narrator voice. I know that each chapter was from a different character's perspective, and they probably wanted to make it personal/realistic by giving them each their own voice, but all of the changing narration took something out of the story for me, though I can't quite pinpoint what.

Putting that aside, though, this book made for a really good listen!