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A Blade So Black by L.L. McKinney
5.0

This book was mentioned on Episode 2 of Checking Out. Listen here!

Possible Read Harder 2020 Prompts: Retelling by an author color
Possible Pop Sugar 2020 Prompts: set in a city that has hosted the Olympics, by a woman of color.

A gritty retelling of Alice in Wonderland that I absolutely became obsessed with. Alice has to slay the nightmares with the help of the Mad Hatter. I honestly don't even want to give too much away because it was THAT good. It was really paralleled wonderfully to the current situation where a lot of black parents are forced to assume the worst when their kids don't come home. Wonderfully wonderfully done.