A review by laura_corsi
On the Come Up by Angie Thomas

4.0

Angie Thomas's second book takes place in the same city and the same neighborhood as The Hate U Give. It takes place after the events in the first novel. The community of Garden Heights is trying to pick up the pieces after the riots and fires that took place following Xavier's death. Our new heroine, Bri, is an aspiring rapper and hip hop artist who dreams of making it big so she can help her family out of poverty. Bri is stubborn and hungry to make it and so ignores her mother's and her friend's warnings about recording a song that uses gang violence as a metaphor. Soon, she finds herself at the center of a firestorm with people on all sides assuming things about Bri that are not true. She loses control of her own narrative. Can Bri find her way through and take back the power to tell her own story?

This book starts out kind of slow and I admit my white girl prejudice took me a second to break through. But once I did this book was brilliant, heartwarming all the heart eyes. It’s a good book when it can make you confront your own assumptions.