A review by mskennedyreads
An Unconditional Freedom by Alyssa Cole

5.0

The last in this incredible trilogy. They should be studied in academia. I read this over several days - it was really hard at times. You could feel that this was written in the height of the lead ups to BLM activism. The author speaks about it in her acknowledgements - that she didn't know how to have the hero fight for a version of America that in 2018 would have been all too recognizable to him - and you can feel that throughout. Janeta and Daniel learn so much about themselves and the world and the power of vulnerability and trust when the stakes are literally life and death and enslavement. The reality of white allies who can oppose racism on principle and theory, and are necessary to collaborate with, but they can leave whenever it suits them, was a tension that was really well explored.