Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Wow. It's been awhile since I couldn't stop reading a book because it was so bad. It was like watching a car wreck. This book is like..you'd think the publishers gave a plot outline to a 40 year-old Midwestern housewife whose favorite channel is Fox News and went "Here! Pretend you're a 16 year old black girl and write this book!" Why does it have to be so extreme? Why does the author need to fit hundreds of stereotypes into a handful of characters? It's insulting. Of course there's a pit bill! And Jordans! And they play basketball! And they say stuff like "aight" and "bubble guts"! And dad used to be a gang member! And there's a Lebrun/Kobe divide in their household! And they listen to Salt n' Pepa and Jodeci and they drive tinted out SUVs with rims. Give me a break. It's like the author had a checklist of black culture and stereotypes she had to include and just inserted at random. There's no depth or nuance anywhere in this book. Everything is so IN YOUR FACE. I don't read a lot of YA fiction.. but if this is how the writing style is, that's like an insult to young adults. I'm so shocked this has such a high rating on Goodreads and now I'm convinced the majority of Goodreads users must be 16 year old schoolgirls from Idaho or something. This book is terrible. The plot is ok, and the subject matter is vital and needs to be addressed. I would've loved to see what the authors of "Americanah" and "Homegoing" could've done with this plot. The Hate U Give just ended up being cliche and a parody of itself. It was offensive.