

Not So Pure and Simple
Author: Lamar Giles
Narrator: Korey Jackson
Unabridged: 11 hr
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Quill Tree Books
Published: 01/21/2020
Author: Lamar Giles
Narrator: Korey Jackson
Unabridged: 11 hr
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Quill Tree Books
Published: 01/21/2020
Lamar Giles writes for teens and adults. He is the author of the Edgar Award finalists Fake ID and Endangered as well as the critically acclaimed Overturned, Spin, and The Last Last-Day-of-Summer. He is a founding member of We Need Diverse Books and resides in Virginia. Visit him online at lamargiles.com.
This was frustrating to read in all the best ways and I am SO GLAD I finally got around to picking this up off of my shelves. Absolutely recommend checking this one out if you haven't already. CW: teen pregnancy, slut shaming, sexual assault, religious gaslighting......more
There’s a whole lot happening all around him, but Del doesn’t notice. Even when his very own sister is determinedly stirring the pot and plenty of people are there to listen to her. Since he’s stuck in his own bubble, Del falls deftly into the group of people that Cressida is talking about, instead......more
No So Pure and Simple initially comes off as your standard contemporary novel, but on further examination it delves heavily into the affects of toxic masculinity that is prevalent even among our children and teenagers. I've never read a book by Lamar Giles so I was surprised by how much I did enjoy......more
It’s probably more of a 3.5 but I’m rounding up. I didn’t even know about this book until a few weeks ago but when I saw the author tweet about the kind of themes he was talking about in it, I wanted to give it a try. And I’ve previously read an anthology edited by Lamar Giles called Fresh Ink which......more