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On the Come Up
by Angie Thomas
I SPED through reading this one. The story was infectious and definitely kept me hooked. However, my one complaint (and the reason this book got 4 stars instead of 5) was the character of Bri herself. She's strong-willed, she's talented, she seems like a cool person to hang out with. But I felt as though we did not get enough of her emotions behind certain decisions or events. We hear a LOT about how other people feel about things that are happening, but sometimes Bri does things that do not seem to have any reasoning behind them. Maybe that's intentional; she is a 16-year-old after all, maybe we are meant to read her as impulsive. But it left me feeling as though I couldn't sympathize with her at times. That said, this book was so different from other books I have read and I appreciated hearing from a different set of voices.