The Hate U Give
‘The rules no fucking longer apply’ Starr Carter The other week when I went to watch the BlacKkKlansman the trailer for the up and coming film adaption of the novel ‘The Hate U Give’ was played and it got me riled up and intrigued. I’ve seen the book advertised in my local library for a while but hadn’t picked it up till now mainly because it is categorised as a teen book and I felted I’ve out grown the genre, but I was very wrong. The novel tells the story of a teenage girl named Starr Carter who witnesses the murder of her best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer and how she and the people in her lives react to the situation. From the first page I fell in love with this book. The way it is written sounds very much like the thoughts in my head which makes it so easy to read, so much so that I finished the book in only four days. Angie Thomas merges potentially the two things that mean the most to me and to herself according to her interview with ...