Review: I'm Not Dying With You Tonight - Kimberly Jones and Gilly Segal

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I'm Not Dying with You Tonight

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 sometimes friends can form in the most unexpected ways and more so strangers can turn out to be your saving grace as Lena and Campbell make a pact not to die with each other tonight and to live another day. Reading books like this makes me realize that I am lucky to live in New Zealand as we don't have these sorts of situations and the riot /protest we did have recently was very self-contained compared to the ones that we read about happening in the US with stores looted, people dying, etc. Fans of the #ownvoices movement and diverse reads will love this story as it unified the two cultures/races together.


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