We Are Not Like Them

I thought this was fine. It's giving Dollar Store Jodi Picoult. It would be great for a book club of nice white ladies to discuss in the summer of 2020. The conceit of splitting narrative between Black and white narrators and being co-written by a Black and white author is interesting but I think for me it still doesn't quite land. The bestieship between the two main characters felt more Told than Shown and it made it hard to understand what Riley was getting out of this friendship in the first place.

But the drama did keep me reading.