There are multitudes within the pages of Angie Thomas’ The Hate U Give, a powerful, heart-wrenching, hopeful, beauty of a book. How did I get this book: Review Copy from the Publisher via Netgalley Movie rights have been sold to Fox, with Amandla Stenberg (The Hunger Games) to star. Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, this is a powerful and gripping YA novel about one girl’s struggle for justice. Now what Starr says could destroy her community. The uneasy balance between them is shattered when Starr is the only witness to the fatal shooting of her unarmed best friend, Khalil, by a police officer. Sixteen-year-old Starr lives in two worlds: the poor neighbourhood where she was born and raised and her posh high school in the suburbs. 2017 only just started and I think I already read the best book of 2017.
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