And right from the beginning, you know that the stakes are very high. I agree! This book kept me reading and reading and reading, long after I should have been sleeping. I had to know who was buried on Rowan’s property. I had planned on reading a few chapters of this book before bed, but I couldn’t stop reading. Seventeen-year-old Rowan wakes up to a commotion in her backyard and discovers that construction workers have dug up a skeleton and a gun.
It starts with a corpse. This novel doesn’t play around. In a country rife with violence against blacks and a hometown segregated by Jim Crow, Will must make hard choices on a painful journey towards self discovery and face his inner demons in order to do what’s right the night Tulsa burns.ĪJ and I were both incredibly impressed with this book, and I’m so glad she “made me” read it! AJ took the lead on the review and we started with her thoughts, with me offering up responses (and, sometimes her adding responses to my responses, and so on…). One hundred years earlier, a single violent encounter propels seventeen-year-old Will Tillman into a racial firestorm. When seventeen-year-old Rowan Chase finds a skeleton on her family’s property, she has no idea that investigating the brutal century-old murder will lead to a summer of painful discoveries about the past, the present, and herself. My content rating: YA (Racial violence, No romance) Genres: Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Contemporary Published by Little Brown Books for Young Readers on February 21st 2017
Read on to see what we thought of the book… I loved doing the review this way! It was great fun and we both loved the interactive format. Sorry if you’re disappointed.)Īs part of the giveaway, I thought it would be fun to offer up the option of doing a dual review, and AJ took me up on it! So here it is, the first ever Make Me Read It Dual Review. Don’t worry, this is a dual review, not a duel review. No actual battling-or even arm-twisting-was involved. (I know the graphic above might make it look like AJ had to challenge me to some sort of duel to make me read the book, but really, all she had to do was win it. AJ Read All the Things was the first ever winner, and she chose to make me read Dreamland Burning-and then she got the book as soon as I was done. Some of you may have seen my Make Me Read It Giveaway (as part of the Wrap-Up Round-Up). Today I’ve got something a little different on the blog.
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