Mile High

This book was so incredibly hyped up. It made the rounds last year. I refused to read it without an audiobook.

As I mentioned... this made the rounds with the BookTube girlies and not ONCE did they mention the main characters were Black. I had to do a double take when I started reading this book.

I'm not going to get into it... I'm tired. Legit tired.

One... As a non BIPOC author in the year 2021, 2022, 2023 and beyond, you should know not to use descriptors such as wild and crazy when describing natural curly or kinky hair. It's rooted in racism. Stop using the excuse that your character spoke to you like this in your head. Go get it checked and check your character and let them know that is racist. If your character has self hatred, then they need to deal with it and not project that hatred onto a child. Which she did. Us wild haired girls have to stick together. UGH!

Second... stop writing about Chicago. Chicago being dangerous this and dangerous that. It's lame. Point blank period.

I went on to book two. I just pretended the characters were not Black and I enjoyed the book better.