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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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“You can’t change how other people think and act, but you’re in full control of you.”

Dear Martin by Nic Stone

July 1, 2022 by Malin Leave a Comment

4.5 stars ustyce McAllister is a seventeen-year-old with a bright future, thanks to his grades and being lucky enough to have a mother who has worked herself to the bone to send him to the prestigious prep school in Atlanta. Then one evening, when trying to help his extremely drunken ex-girlfriend get home safely (she’s half-black, but looks more like her Norwegian mother than her black dad), he’s detained by a very aggressive cop who’s convinced he was trying to carjack and abduct the girl. […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: #blacklivesmatter, Angie Thomas, cbr14, coming-of-age, contemporary fiction, Dear Martin, friendship, Gun Violence, Malin, nic stone, Police Brutality, Racism, romantic, the hate u give, Young Adult

Malin's CBR14 Review No:9 · Genres: Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: #blacklivesmatter, Angie Thomas, cbr14, coming-of-age, contemporary fiction, Dear Martin, friendship, Gun Violence, Malin, nic stone, Police Brutality, Racism, romantic, the hate u give, Young Adult ·
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From where he is standing across the street, Justyce can see her: Melo Taylor, ex-girlfriend, slumped over beside her Benz on the damp concrete of the FarmFresh parking lot.

Dear Martin by Nic Stone

February 18, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

I really liked this book, and there were times throughout the audiobook where I was physically worried for the sake of the lead character. You can tell when a book is not going to allow its characters to be safe, and for me, this book felt that way because there was no humor in it. There’s a few little moments here and there, but this book treats its whole aura as deadly serious, which it is, but that also means no levity. So if I […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Dear Martin, nic stone

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:70 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Dear Martin, nic stone ·
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