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Ebook About Gossip Girl meets Get Out in Ace of Spades, a YA contemporary thriller by debut author Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé about two students, Devon & Chiamaka, and their struggles against an anonymous bully. All you need to know is . . . I’m here to divide and conquer. Like all great tyrants do. —Aces When two Niveus Private Academy students, Devon Richards and Chiamaka Adebayo, are selected to be part of the elite school’s senior class prefects, it looks like their year is off to an amazing start. After all, not only does it look great on college applications, but it officially puts each of them in the running for valedictorian, too.Shortly after the announcement is made, though, someone who goes by Aces begins using anonymous text messages to reveal secrets about the two of them that turn their lives upside down and threaten every aspect of their carefully planned futures.As Aces shows no sign of stopping, what seemed like a sick prank quickly turns into a dangerous game, with all the cards stacked against them. Can Devon and Chiamaka stop Aces before things become incredibly deadly?With heart-pounding suspense and relevant social commentary comes a high-octane thriller from debut author Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé.Book Ace of Spades Review :
The book has been dubbed as Gossip Girl meets Get Out and it definitely fits the description. This has been one of my most anticipated reads of the summer and it did not disappoint at all. One word of advice while reading this story is to NOT trust ANYONE in this story. You wouldn’t believe how many times I had my heart crushed when twists were revealed.“I learned when I was younger to keep how I really felt buried, deal with feelings later, on my own. I’m good at burying things in deep boxes in my mind. I’m good at being okay most of the time. Until I’m not, and the boxes burst open and I explode.”I related to Devon so much while reading this story. As someone who deals with anxiety issues I understand all to well about burying things deeply in the boxes in my head.“I hate how they have the power to kill my future, kill me. They treat my Black skin like a gun or grenade or a knife that is dangerous and lethal, when really, it’s them. The guys at the top powering everything.”Amen!I would have liked a little follow up with one of the characters, but other than that this was a very solid and exciting debut by Faridah Abike-Iyimide. Granted, I've never been a fan of Gossip Girl (both books and the series), and while I enjoyed Get Out, it isn't amongst my all-time favorite films. However between the incredibly awesome cover and the premise, I really wanted to see just how these two disparate elements could possibly work together.Well...it's a lot. Racism, bullying, homophobia, class issues...a LOT.I'm still trying to gather my thoughts, so bear with me here.I'd say this novel has more in common with Selah and the Spades, than Gossip Girl but that's just me.***"In this kingdom, the queen doesn't inherit the crown. To get to the top, she destroys whoever she needs to. Here, every moment is crucial; there are no do-overs. One mistake can have you sent to the bottom of the food chain with the girls who have imaginary boyfriends and wear polyester ironically. It sounds dramatic, but this is the way things are and the way they will always be."Chiamaka Adebayo is the Nigerian-Italian American, overachieving and scheming student at the prestigious Niveus Academy aka the prep school from hell. Chiamaka is wealthy, smart and on her way to Yale through sheer will and grades. She's the proverbial queen bee and while not a bully herself, doesn't suffer fools gladly. What friends she has (and I use the term "friends" loosely) are merely there as accessories, a fact they know and resent."Maintaining popularity at a place like Niveus is not about how many friends you have. It's about looking the part, having the best grades, and dating the right people. You have to make everyone wish they were you, wish they had your life. I know to an outsider, it seems horrible--making people self-conscious, feeding off their envy, destroying anyone who gets in your way--but I learned early on that it's either kill or be killed. And if I had to stop and feel bad for every instance I've had to step on someone's toes to keep the crown, I'd be very bored."Seriously, this book really didn't need anything else because as unlikeable as Chiamaka tries to be, I couldn't help rooting for her. She knows who she is and what her goals are. She knows the game and has played it fabulously.Unfortunately, she's had to make a lot of compromises in order to fit in the lily-white world she's found herself in, and those compromises are ones that many Black people in such surroundings can relate to. Black people are often told by their family and friends that we have to be not just as good as white people, but *better* just to be considered equal. It's an unfair burden (amongst many) and it's one Chiamaka struggles with even as she feels she's bested the lion in its own den. And though she's done everything a white supremacist system would consider to be "right", she's still Black.This is Chiamaka's last year and she's been made Senior Head Prefect, the icing on an already elaborate cake. She's got the grades, the perfect boyfriend, the wardrobe, the hair, the house and wealthy doctor parents. What else is left?"Even though I know I shouldn't care, it annoys me that when girls know what they want and how they're going to get it, they're seen as cocky. But guys who know what they want? They're confident or strong."While this is the pinnacle of her hard-fought success at Niveus, it also is the beginning of a frightening downward spiral due to forces she cannot understand nor control.Nor is she the only victim.Devon Richards is the only other Black student at Niveus besides Chiamaka and they do NOT run in the same circles. They are opposites in almost every other way, and Devon finds himself shocked at being named a Senior Prefect:"I know things like Senior Prefects are a popularity contest. Teachers vote for their favorites each year, and it's always the same kind of person. Someone popular, and I am not popular. Maybe my music teacher put in a good word for me? I don't know."Devon is that scholarship student with the good grades, and a passion to do well in order to justify the sacrifices his hard-working single mom is making. He's also from the wrong side of the tracks and he's gay. He feels like a fish out of water at Niveus, surrounded by so much wealth and privilege. His only outlet is music and he's set on attending Julliard. And sometimes to make ends meet, he has to do things his very religious yet caring mother would not want him to do. She needs for him to not worry about "adult things" but where he's from, there's really no room for childhood.Unfortunately, the same forces arrayed against Chiamaka are out to get him as well. These two people who only know of each other in passing have to join forces to find out just who's stalking them and why. Suddenly trusted friends have become enemies, lovers turned into strangers and even supportive teachers are showing their true faces and the only people Chiamaka and Devon can rely on are themselves and each other.The bullying takes on a frightening and dangerous life of its own as even the relative safety of the world outside of the claustrophobic walls of Niveus are drawn into the web of deceit and danger.However, revenge is also a dish best served cold...not to mention, outliving the tormentors.For anyone who believes it's impossible for the kinds of racialized bullying to occur that happened in this novel, I highly suggest reading (or watching) The Lords of Discipline by the late Pat Conroy. While it's a fictional account of the targeting of one of VMI's first Black cadets, the fact is Black students - especially in historically white settings - deal with organized bullying in varying degrees. 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