Lena has her killer style, her awesome boyfriend, and a plan. She knows she's going to make it big. Campbell, on the other hand, is just trying to keep her head down and get through the year at her new school.
When both girls attend the Friday-night football game, what neither expects is for everything to descend into sudden mass chaos. Chaos born from violence and hate. Chaos that unexpectedly throws them together.
They aren't friends. They hardly understand the other's point of view. But none of that matters when the city is up in flames, and they only have each other to rely on if they're going to survive the night.
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['Waiting for Black is on your agenda, not mine' LaShunda barks as we leave the building]***
(Sourcebooks Fire, 6 August 2019, 272 pages, ebook, borrowed from @GlasgowLib via @OverDriveLibs for #BigLibraryRead)
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I really enjoyed this book. I liked how the book has two authors and the chapters alternate between both characters. I assume each other wrote one character's story? The book uses a first person narrator to tell the story of both girls on a night that will shake up everything they thought they knew. Both Lena and Campbell are different and have made, quite wrong assumptions about each other based on social prejudices and assumptions about race and social class. I liked how something like a friendship starts to grow between the girls as they struggle to survive the chaos around them and discover how wrong their first impressions were. This is the very definition of a page turner. I didn't want to stop once I started to read.