Thank you Netgalley for a copy of Run, Rebel in exchange for an honest review.

The protagonist, Amber, is torn in so many different directions. Her frustration and desperation almost flies of the page as she deals with friendship, love, family and abuse. She also has issues finding her place in the world with the cards she has been dealt. She questions her father's ideas of how a woman should be and tries to come to terms with her own (family's) poverty that contrasts her friend's wealth. This is a story about race and unfairness, feminism and the difficult task of Amber discovering who she really is.

The whole novel is written in verse and this was my first verse book ever. I have to admit that it was quite difficult for me to understand and to grasp a lot of the issues while knowing that there was something important on the page that I didn't fully understand. Maybe I should've read an easy love story in verse before this, but I doubt that it would've made the same impact. Because an impact it did make.

I liked Run, Rebel and I recommend it to everyone who loves reading about difficult subjects, about being hit with emotion twice as hard because the words Manjeet Mann finds and the way she displays them are very special. I also recommend this to anyone who likes a good book about a strong heroine, because Amber definitely is one!