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A review by readingwitherin
On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
5.0
Content Warning: Racism, profiling, drugs, gangs, gun violence, and incarceration of a family member.
Thank you to Misty for buddy reading this book with me.
Bri wants to be a rap legend like her father was and she sees it as a way to help her family out as well. In order to do this though she must get the attention of those in her neighbor hood by competing in rap battles. Bri’s aunt is her manager and is trying to help her reach this goal even though her mom doesn’t want her to as she feels she should be focusing on school instead.
Bri lives with her mom and older brother but goes to school far away in order to have better opportunities. Going to school there though means that she faces more racism when it comes to how some people look at her and always say she has an attitude when she tries to point out things to her teachers. This is one of the conflicts we see Bri go through along with some family struggles at home that happen that make life a little bit more difficult.
Overall I enjoyed this book. It doesn’t have as much of an emotional impact as the authors debut book did, but it is still important and shows a different side to where they live. Bri is an interesting character and I loved getting to see more about her life and how things were in the neighborhood. The rap portions of the book were also really interesting to me especially when it came to the battles and how those happened. I do like rap music so it was fun to see how some of the lyrics come together and how the lyrics can get misconstrued by the public easily. Bri is a character that was loveable though and yes she made some questionable choices at times, but I also understand why she made those choices. After having read this book I am now looking forward to reading Angie Thomass newest book because I think it connects with this one a little bit more than THUG.
Thank you to Misty for buddy reading this book with me.
Bri wants to be a rap legend like her father was and she sees it as a way to help her family out as well. In order to do this though she must get the attention of those in her neighbor hood by competing in rap battles. Bri’s aunt is her manager and is trying to help her reach this goal even though her mom doesn’t want her to as she feels she should be focusing on school instead.
Bri lives with her mom and older brother but goes to school far away in order to have better opportunities. Going to school there though means that she faces more racism when it comes to how some people look at her and always say she has an attitude when she tries to point out things to her teachers. This is one of the conflicts we see Bri go through along with some family struggles at home that happen that make life a little bit more difficult.
Overall I enjoyed this book. It doesn’t have as much of an emotional impact as the authors debut book did, but it is still important and shows a different side to where they live. Bri is an interesting character and I loved getting to see more about her life and how things were in the neighborhood. The rap portions of the book were also really interesting to me especially when it came to the battles and how those happened. I do like rap music so it was fun to see how some of the lyrics come together and how the lyrics can get misconstrued by the public easily. Bri is a character that was loveable though and yes she made some questionable choices at times, but I also understand why she made those choices. After having read this book I am now looking forward to reading Angie Thomass newest book because I think it connects with this one a little bit more than THUG.