Review: I'm Not Dying With You Tonight - Kimberly Jones and Gilly Segal - September 2019 Inspired loosely by the 2015 Baltimore Riots, we have two authors - one black and one white who have paired up together to bring you a race united story. As I was a huge fan of Angie Thomas's books The Hate U Give and Concrete Rose, I was looking forward to this book and it lived up to my expectations. The story starts with a high school football game and we have Lena - our black character and Campbell- our white character both living their lives normally. The girls lead different lives but when a riot breaks out at the ball game, the girls end up stuck together in a makeshift stand. What started as a fun evening ends in chaos with gunshots going off at the school. The girls know they have to get out somehow and so they journey on together to their homes as the night progresses we learn that the riot has spilled from the school into the streets and that the town is alight and that someti...

Review: Our Friendship Matters - Kimberley B. Jones - October 2020 With the current state of BLM aka #BlackLivesMatter movement and the whole world going through a state of racism between whites and blacks. Our Friendship Matters by Kimberley B.Jones was one of those books that were published at the right time and focuses on the different movements and racism. Sasha, though African-American herself, with her parents wealthy - they decided to send her to a private school called Chester rather than the public school Eastview that her childhood friends and some neighbors attend. At school, she is best friends with another wealthy girl who acts snobbish and wealth is important to her - Leah, she is also white. Similar to Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give this book starts with Sasha giving her childhood friend Ricardo a ride and then seeing him participating in a protest for #JusticeforMitchell. Sasha decides to do some research and learns he was shot by a white policeman and he wasn...

This post is part of a virtual book tour organized by Goddess Fish Promotions . Kimberley B. Jones will be awarding a $10 Amazon or B/N GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour. Click on the tour banner to see the other stops on the tour. Leah and Sasha are 17-year-old friends who had been close to one another since elementary school, but as the summer approaches they find their friendship tested in ways they never anticipated. Following graduation, Sasha’s privileged life and perception of the world around her is suddenly altered when an old childhood friend persuades her to join in a campaign against an injustice after his best friend is killed by a cop. But joining the protest has unforeseen consequences for Sasha, distancing her from Leah, who becomes jealous of Sasha’s new friends and finds herself on the opposing side, protesting alongside her group of new white friends. As the tension mounts between the two bitterly opposed factions, a traged...