I have mixed feelings about this one and I, frankly, I'm going to have to sit with them a little longer before I am ready to say what I think. I will say that it's a challanging book and thought provoking. Where-ever I end up ultimately, I can recommend it for that alone. Any book that makes a reader really think and evaluate their response is worth reading.
This is a story about two black students, Devon and Chiamaka, in an otherwise entirely white high-powered and exclusive private academy. They are in their senior year and they are both on track to graduate when things start to go wrong. A mysterious figure calling themselves Aces is spreading malicious texts and rumors about them. It comes out of nowhere and is social and emotional bullying taken to an extreme.
Both students struggle and fight back as best they can as the massive conspiracy becomes more and more clear.
So, while this is absolutely a high school drama, it's not they same as the run of mill high school dramas. It has more in common with a good spy thriller.
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