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A review by chyreads29
There Goes the Neighborhood by Jade Adia
3.0
3.5/5
I really enjoyed this. It reminded me of the Netflix originals On My Block and Vampires vs the Bronx , both of which I absolutely love! The characters are diverse and so adorable and even amidst something as heavy and traumatic as displacement and gentrification, joy is still centered. What didn't wholly work for me was the over-explaining in some places and how purely evil the "villains" were. The bad guys were so simple, overtly dramatic, and easily identifiable which isn't how the real world works most of the time. But I get why these tropes exist in a book like this that is geared toward a much younger audience. Anyways, I will always jump at a story where the Black and Brown kids save themselves. This is definitely that!
I really enjoyed this. It reminded me of the Netflix originals On My Block and Vampires vs the Bronx , both of which I absolutely love! The characters are diverse and so adorable and even amidst something as heavy and traumatic as displacement and gentrification, joy is still centered. What didn't wholly work for me was the over-explaining in some places and how purely evil the "villains" were. The bad guys were so simple, overtly dramatic, and easily identifiable which isn't how the real world works most of the time. But I get why these tropes exist in a book like this that is geared toward a much younger audience. Anyways, I will always jump at a story where the Black and Brown kids save themselves. This is definitely that!