Today’s A Month of Faves topic is pretty straightforward: books that are worth the hype! Or maybe not.

Let’s start with books worth the hype:

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Hey, so, I was very reluctant to read this book because the topic is pretty triggering, and I wasn’t sure I could handle it. And while, yes, the book starts with Khalil’s murder and the topic is serious, there’s a lot of humor and heart to this book. It’s not a problem novel (Google it), but Thomas offers real and nuanced characters who have real and nuanced reactions to real things.

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