When I say the book synopsis does not even really give you what this book is about. I mean that in a good way because each part it dives deeper and deeper into what so many of us Black people face daily. This book was Gossip Girl meets Pretty Little Liars meets Get Out. But even that description you can’t really predict it all.

Chiamaka and Devon being the only black kids at this private prep school was already having me suspicious because you can never be too comfortable around white people. When they are both named as Head Perfect and Senior perfect, that’s when their own personal downfall begins. Reading this with my friend we kept guessing who Aces was that was exposing Chi and Devon’s personal lives, the hit and run turned possible murder, the lies, the secrets. Aces very much have A from Pretty Little Liars the way texts were being sent at random to students. But it kept going deeper. This plot is not just about being Black but it’s about surviving white spaces where they don’t want you to even exist.

These same white people will laugh in your face and smile at you but secretly plot on you. That’s exactly what these 2 faced. When you see how deep racism goes. It’s not just 1 person but an entire society, one where you’re being taught to hate generations on generations. Everything really does lead back to slavery and racism. White people see us as game, objects, not real life human beings. And that’s the scary part how far they’ll go to mistreat you, the micro aggressions we face, the hatred. It’s all tied together. But Devon and Chi chose to fight back! Fight a long tradition of the erasure of the Black students at Niveus.

The way so many things had symbolic meaning I gasped turning the page. I loved reading about the lives of Devon and Chiamaka. I was sad seeing how hurt Devon got in the process of it all. He didn’t deserve it. Fighting internal battles of coming out to his mom and not being accepted in his neighborhood. Chiamaka doing her best to appease to her white classmates so they won’t question her Nigerian Italian identity. The masks they wore just to survive was so relatable. Truly a great book written even though it was YA. It definitely was suspenseful and all 3 parts told a story! What’s crazy is the book starts off so simple but as you get to part 2 you’re filled with anger for Chiamaka and Devon and it’s blasphemous how deep the hatred for them runs. When I say I was gagged because what do you mean they had camps to teach kids how to be racist? Insane but very much something that we see in real life. Overall it was a page turner as you got to the next parts. I enjoyed this for sure.