Ace of Spades

so this book is very complicated for me. what the book was trying to am for it did really well. i really enjoyed most of this book. the ending wasn't my favorite similar to the end of no one is watching by alyssa cole but i didn't dislike it nearly as much as that one. i also really related to chiamaka personally. she is mixed like me and often a lot of the things she said i would find annoying but i used to think those same things back in middle school. she's a senior in high school tho and should know better but imma just move past that part. devon had an interesting storyline but they packed on every single stereotypical trauma onto him. it was just a bit too much but is realistic for some experiences. because the book did what it aimed to do well, i really can't fault it BUT i'm tired of all this black trauma. i want a thriller with black characters where the whole plot doesn't revolve around some people trying to get them for their race. race is apart of life and it will always be apart of black books but racial trauma doesn't have to be the catalyst. as i said the first maybe like 75% was a solid 5 star for me because even though i had problems, it felt like pretty little liars but more diverse and it was eating it up. the end was more like a 2.5 but since it was only 1/4 of the book i'm giving this book 4 stars