and Quan sits behind bars at the Fulton Regional Youth Detention Centre. Years later, Justyce walks the illustrious halls of Yale University. Vernell LaQuan Banksand Justyce McAllister grew up a block apart in the Southwest Atlanta neighbourhood of Wynwood Heights. Thanks to Netgalley for sending me a copy for review. I was therefore thrilled to be given the opportunity to read it’s newly released companion novel Dear Justyce and I’m sharing my full review of Nic Stone’s new book today. All thoughts and opinions are our own**Įarlier this year I picked up Dear Martin from my library after seeing some of my favourite bloggers and Youtubers recommending it and I really enjoyed it, with it’s hard hitting look at racism and police brutality really impacting me. Instead, though, he starts dating Sarah-Jane and focuses on his future, going on to attend Yale in the fall.**We were gifted an e-copy of this book in return for an honest review. Consequently, he considers joining a gang called the Black Jihad. However, when Castillo’s partner, Officer Tison, later shoots and kills Manny, Justyce feels especially alone in a racist world. Luckily, Justyce can confide in his favorite teacher, Doc, and Sarah-Jane Friedman. Although his best friend Manny is black, Manny constantly defers to racist white kids like Jared Christiansen, which upsets Justyce. This is partly because he has very few people to commiserate with at school. In the aftermath of this event, Justyce decides to write diary entries addressed to Martin Luther King, Jr. Friedman, uses her legal expertise to have him released. This instance of racial profiling rattles Justyce, even after his friend’s mother, Mrs. He punches Justyce in the face and accuses him of trying to take advantage of Melo. Apparently, Castillo followed him from a distance when he saw him walking with his hood up. He then gently places her in the backseat, at which point a white police officer named Tommy Castillo pulls up and unjustly arrests him. He takes her keys from her, but she resents receiving help when she’s drunk, so she slaps him and tells him to go away before suddenly vomiting on his sweatshirt. Wearing a hooded sweatshirt, he ventures into a wealthy neighborhood, where he eventually comes upon her near her car. When he hears one night that his on-again-off-again girlfriend, Melo Taylor, has gotten too drunk to drive and is ignoring her friends’ calls, he sets out to find her.
A hardworking and intelligent young man, Justyce is a scholarship student at a prestigious boarding school called Braselton Preparatory Academy. Justyce McAllister is a seventeen-year-old African American boy from a “bad area” in Atlanta, Georgia.
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