Ace of Spades

Shock 😲!!!! This book told a story that needed to be told. SOCIAL ENGENICS!!! Never heard of it until now, the term but the story man it hit hard. This story pissed me off and made me so angry. Not because it was badly written, no way. The author did her thing!!! She wrote an amazing story and I loved it. Hard to truly explain my feelings here. So like Denzel in Training Day, he did a phenomenal job in that role that it was Oscar worthy. But he played it so amazingly that I truly despised his character and I never have to watch it again. Ace of Spades told the story so well that it deserves all the awards and accolades. It just pissed me off because baby she captured all my emotions through the story. I hated Jamie, the teachers and that school by the time it was all said and done. Everybody in the end got what they deserved for what they tried to do to those innocent babies, who only wanted the best for their lives. Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, you have a new fan for life and you are now an auto buy author for me!!!!!!

The audiobook was sooo good!
I really like both of the main characters and their personalities, there were a few moments were I laughed out loud, which I was not expecting.
This story was executed so well and it held my attention throughout the whole book.
At the start of the book I thought that it was going to be too childish since it is YA but I actually felt really attached to the characters and was rooting for them to take down the school the whole time.
It was great to see how Chiamaka and Devon developed throughout the story, especially since they were both going through such different but similar situations, obviously Devon not being as rich as Chiamaka and maybe not having some of the benefits of two parents alive, but at the same time they both had to deal with racism and the effects that white supremacy had in both of their lives.
I think that there are so many things that are seen as micro aggressions, like how police officers want to be intimidating without reason and people easily blame black people or want to make them uncomfortable just because of the color of their skin, that tend to get minimized and maybe thought of as "not a big deal" but they still affect people negatively.
An amazing book!

"𝑮𝒓𝒐𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒖𝒑, 𝑰 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒛𝒆𝒅 𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒍𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒊𝒔𝒕 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒉𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒊𝒔𝒎 𝒊𝒕𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇." 𝔸𝕔𝕖 𝕠𝕗 𝕊𝕡𝕒𝕕𝕖𝕤- 𝘍𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘢𝘩 𝘈̀𝘣𝘪́𝘬𝘦́-𝘐́𝘺𝘪́𝘮𝘪́𝘥𝘦́ Audible Voices - 𝐽𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒 𝐼𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑑𝑔𝑒, 𝑇𝑎𝑝𝑖𝑤𝑎 𝑀𝑢𝑔𝑤𝑒𝑛𝑖 ⭐ ( 10 / 10 ) First off, let me say... The audible voices were amazing performances, sometimes when they swapped to someone else i forgot there were only two narrators. Crazy. That being said...Yall know by now how I feel about making us ladies look stupid and this damn book... Did not make anybody but Aces look like an entire "peach"whole and I do mean entire. I've seen the reviews enough that unfortunately for me, I figured out the fat twist at the end before i got there. 😭 HOWEVER! That in no way shape or form hindered my read. Y'all this book is nuts. And you know what makes it crazier?! Ive seen some reviews floating around that were like eh, I get it but nah not good. Listen Kid Cudi said it best for me. "I hope they understand, that I really understand that they don't understand." This book had everything for ME, twists, psychos, stalking, backstabbing. There were red herrings, and people I thought were red herrings. And that blonde hair blue eyed girl I still don't know what to think about with her. Frienemies... Let me definitely say and probably spoil here, listen if you're best friend can pronounce Emily Ratajkowski or Timothée Chalamet correctly and cannot pronounce YOUR NAME correctly? 🚩 Periodt! Sorry it took me so long to get a review out, but I didn't want it to end and so I took my time stretching it out. Now I'm having wothdrawls and I'm sad about it. I am definitely keeping this review short because once I get to talking about it I'll spoil everything. But if you wanna discuss, DM I got you. But as far as stars go Yep I hit six by accident...or was it? Ms. @faridahlikestea killed it! Watching for more of her stuff. ℍ𝕒𝕡𝕡𝕪 ℝ𝕖𝕒𝕕𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝘑𝘢𝘺 𝘔𝘢𝘺 𝘖𝘶𝘵

This book kept me on the edge of my seat! If I could read it for the first time again, I would!

I thought I was prepared for the twist...I wasn't. This book was amazing and my cousin and I thoroughly enjoyed every page. The pacing was perfect, the contrast in dynamics and the parallels had me swooning