Gosh, I’m so excited for this. Dear Martin is so good and so underrated. It’s up there with THUG. It’s as relevant and as important.

Dear Justyce by Nic Stone is the Young Adult, Realistic Fiction companion to Dear Martin. But, please do not pass it by if you’ve not yet met these characters. Dear Justyce does just fine on its own. Quan is, once again, in Juvenile Detention. The difference: this time…he actually may not have committed the crime for which he is accused. Yeah, he panicked when the very officer that killed Manny swung his weapon toward Quan and his crew. He even pulled his nasty little .22. And brilliantly, he le...

Nic Stone is SO underrated!!

Dear Justyce by Nic Stone is a great YA own voices novel about the American juvenile justice system.Dear Justyce is an excellent sequel to Dear Martin. It can be read as a standalone, but this series is so good I highly recommend reading both.I love Nic Stone’s novels. I have read Dear Martin and now Dear Justyce. Both gave me the perspective of black teenagers. Stone’s characters seem so real. None of her characters are all good or all bad. Her style of writing really gets you in the character’...

Sequels can be a difficult thing to pull off. Even more so when the sequel was one not originally planned by the author while writing the first book. So upon starting Dear Justyce, Nic Stone’s follow-up to her staggering novel Dear Martin, I really appreciated that the dedication she included not only thanked the boys that inspired the continuation of Quan’s story, but doubled as an explainer to why she decided to write this book in the end. It primed the reader for what this story was about, wh...

This author writes the most powerful novels in a compact format!!! Short but impactful!!!It reminded me of Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption and This Is My America, all three books focus on the justice system, and it's just heart breaking to read these stories.I'm also loving how the two book covers mirror each other. Very clever!!Full review on blog___________________________________Find more reviews and book recommendations on my blogFollow me on Bookstagram

4.5 StarsWell it's a long time since I have read a book where I was as teary eyed as I was in this incredibly well written and moving story.It just hit me right in the heart because it was about a young person who didn't feel worthy of the love, support and belief of those who were fighting for justice and for his future. Quan had been let down so many time throughout his life. It was painful to read about how Quan's options closed down around him forcing him towards the only type of 'family' th...

After reading Dear Martin in November, I was so excited to see that Quan got a story. I think that reading Dear Martin before this one allows you to become even more connected to Quan and enjoy seeing Justyce, Doc, SJ, and other characters from that first book. Dear Justyce was heartbreaking, infuriating, and emotional. Everything Quan goes through shows you how broken the justice system is and how much young people just need adults in their lives to believe in them. I was heartbroken reading Qu...

When people ask me, “Do you like standalone novels or series more?” I always say standalone. I am not one to read sequels very often. My experience in the past has always been that the sequel pretty much never lives up to the first book. Nic Stone may have just changed my opinion with Dear Justyce. I read this book in one sitting and gave it 5 stars – the 6th book (out of 47) I’ve awarded 5 stars to this year.The book can stand on its own without reading Dear Martin first, but I do think you wil...

4 starsDear Justyce is the sequel to Dear Martin and it was even more hard hitting and equally as important to read. It was a quick listen and I recommend everyone check it out! Audio book source: Libby (library borrow) Story Rating: 4 starsNarrator: Dion GrahamNarration Rating: 4 starsGenre: Contemporary Length: 4 hours and 45 minutes

Resist when the world tries to convince you otherwise. I really enjoyed Dear Martin and i'm glad this got a continuation with a new character who appeared in the previous one and I enjoyed how different the two were to each other. Quan's story is so different to what Martin's story was but this story was so important and tells such an impactful story that anyone can read and understand. I enjoyed the flashbacks and the letters to Martin and seeing the story unfold that way and Nic has done such

***5 stars***This story is powerful, realistic and heartbreaking. It talks about how broken and messed up the American justice system is, especially when it comes to black men. I almost read it in one sitting, it's that captivating. Quan is a young black man who has been in a detention center for over 2 years, locked up for a murder he didn't commit. While serving time, he writes to his childhood friend, Justyce (MC from book 1), in hopes of getting some sort of help. And I'll stop here with the...

5 STARS ★★★★★ This book is for you if… you loved the format and grip of Dear Martin. ⤐ Overall.I love that, with this book, Nic gave voice to so many Black young people out there who haven't had somebody to listen to their story in earnest. So that they may see, although us white people still have an incredible amount of work to do and despite all our best efforts, there is still an incredible future waiting for them to conquer.Somehow audible played and Dear Justyce right after one a

“He’s been charged with murder...they say he killed a police officer.” We are first briefly introduced to Manny’s cousin Quan in “Dear Martin.” He’s not like Manny, whose parents drive fancy cars and flaunt their money. He hasn’t had life easy. His family doesn’t have much at all and he often goes without for his younger siblings’ sake. His stepfather; real father of his siblings, is both physically and verbally abusive to his mother. She won’t leave him. His real Dad is locked up.Quan’s only wa...

Dear Justyce by Nic Stone is a powerful and necessary follow up to Dear Martin, and in this novel, Nic Stone gives voices to those who are too often unheard because of their skin color, poverty, education, lack of support and legal representation.Like Justyce who wrote letters to Martin Luther King, Quan writes letters from jail to Justyce. Through flashbacks and these letters, readers learn about Quan's troubled past--incarcerated father, abusive stepfather, search for "family," unfair treatmen...

While most sequels fail to live up, this one breaks the mold! Having read, 'Dear Martin', the story of Justyce, a young black male who writes to MLK as a means to cope with racial issues, 'Dear Justyce' picks up where it left off. Nic Stone has a lyrical writing style and knows the racial injustice territory well. We meet Quan, one of Justyce's neighborhood 'home boys' in the first book. Years later Justyce is at Yale law school and the recipient of Quan's letters. Ms. Stone mentions in the epil...

In Dear Justyce, the sequel to Dear Martin, Quan finds himself in jail, serving time for a shooting of a cop. To pass the time between being tutored and awaiting his trial, he writes letters to Justyce. Quan and Justyce are childhood friends and though they grew up in the same neighborhood, their lives are quite different. Quan didn’t have the same support as Justyce at home and he didn’t attend prep school. Dear Justyce is a story of unfortunate realities including flawed and prejudice practice...

video review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uN3nN... I love the direction Nic Stone took with this sequel. The writing style, the characterization, the structure...so creative and powerful. Having read Dear Martin over the summer, I can definitely say that you do not want to miss out on this second book. It is a whole other level.