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Angie Thomas (1) (1988–)

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Verk av Angie Thomas

The Hate U Give (2017) 9,162 exemplar
On the Come Up (2019) 2,024 exemplar
Concrete Rose (2021) 1,063 exemplar
Whiteout (2022) 133 exemplar
The Hate U Give [2018 film] (2018) — Based on the novel by — 114 exemplar
The Manifestor Prophecy (2023) 108 exemplar
The Hate U Give [annotated] (2019) — Författare — 11 exemplar
The Black Widows 1 exemplar

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Blackout (2021) — Bidragsgivare — 550 exemplar
Hope Nation: YA Authors Share Personal Moments of Inspiration (2018) — Bidragsgivare — 145 exemplar

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Representation: Black and Asian characters
Trigger warnings: Death of a brother and a child in the past mentioned, murder, blood, grief and loss depiction, racism, racist slurs, gun and gang violence, physical assault and injury, hospitalisation of a person, fire, explosions, imprisonment, drug and alcohol abuse
Score: Nine points out of ten.
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The Hate U Give succeeded where other novels failed. I've read books like this before, but none were as outstanding as this one. I wanted to read this story for a while after seeing it in my recommendations, so I picked it up from a library I went to. When I finally read and finished the narrative, it was spectacular. It's the first five-star read of the year.

It starts with the first person I see, Starr Carter, living as if she's split in two. One half lives in an impoverished neighbourhood while the other lives in a PWI. Everything looks typical until a person shoots and kills her best friend, Khalil, who is unarmed. The book is slow but I can understand since it's over 400 pages, yet it still feels like every page is necessary.

I liked that the author allowed me to connect to Starr more as she developed, and I appreciated all the other characters in the fictional composition. They're all realistic and complex. The author explores the themes of racism and injustice well as I could see how people can make subtle racist comments and how they can be in solidarity with each other. The climax is bittersweet as I see crowds protesting over Khalil's death, all while the police do nothing about the culprit. When I closed the final page, it never felt like I left The Hate U Give at all, since that world is, unfortunately, so similar to the one I live in, especially when there are people against injustice in real life. The sneak peek of On the Come Up immediately made me want to read it and other creations from Angie Thomas.
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Law_Books600 | 472 andra recensioner | Mar 18, 2024 |
I found the character to be a bit abrasive, but the book was interesting enough and flowed so fast I finished it in an entire day.
 
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Linyarai | 79 andra recensioner | Mar 6, 2024 |
I read this for the "A New York Times Bestseller For More Than 10 Weeks" part of my 2018 reading challenge. It was fantastic and insightful and real, it didn't read as too childish or too adult, it found it's voice perfectly. And it's a voice everyone needs to hear.
 
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Linyarai | 472 andra recensioner | Mar 6, 2024 |
This is a young adult book that is an excellent opening conversation about race relations that should be assigned reading in every American high school. The protagonist, Starr Carter, lives in two worlds: the tony, mostly white suburban prep school she attends in another town where her uncle lives -- a police officer who acted as a father figure while her father was in jail earlier in her childhood -- and her gritty urban neighborhood. These two worlds diverge when Starr witnesses the fatal police shooting of her best friend since childhood, Khalil, an unarmed black teenage boy. It is a well-written first-person narrative.… (mer)
 
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bschweiger | 472 andra recensioner | Feb 4, 2024 |

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Verk
15
Även av
3
Medlemmar
12,747
Popularitet
#1,838
Betyg
½ 4.4
Recensioner
605
ISBN
195
Språk
17
Favoritmärkt
2

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