And they, too, deserve for their stories to be told and will hopefully see themselves in Quan’s experience. Things don’t always go right and one can feel powerless in the circumstances that you find yourself in. People who are often at the wrong place at the wrong time and have no one in their corner. There are people who feel trapped with a label that got stuck on them early on and like there is no escape from a possible future as a delinquent. As much as Dear Martin had quite the impact, the more readers Nic Stone met, the more she realized that a lot of people don’t get the same chances and opportunities as Justyce. Right from the beginning, the author explains why she decided to write this book. However, this book isn’t as much about Justyce as it is about Quan, a boy with a very different life. I have been a huge fan of Nic Stone’s novel Dear Martin and while I didn’t expect for there to be a sequel (or companion novel?), I was excited to get the chance to revisit these characters. *I was provided with an eARC by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review!*ĬW: racial profiling, police brutality, incarceration, domestic abuse, mention of sleep paralysis, anxiety and depression
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