The Urban Promise Prep School vows to turn boys into men. As students, J.B., Ramon, and Trey are forced to follow the prestigious "program's" strict rules. Extreme discipline, they've been told, is what it takes to be college bound, to avoid the fates of many men in their neighborhoods. This, the Principal Moore Method, supposedly saves lives.
But when Moore ends up murdered and the cops come sniffing around, the trio emerges as the case's prime suspects. With all three maintaining their innocence, they must band together to track down the real killer before they are arrested. But is the true culprit hiding among them?
This exquisitely taut thriller shines a glaring light on how the system too often condemns Black and Latinx teen boys to failure before they've even had a chance at success.
Ok, I know it's mean to mark down a book because of problems with the ARC, as it isn't the final version. But the text messages are all but impossible to read, and there are large sections of white pages plopped at random in the middle of writing. The real ebook won't be like that, I hope, but it did make for some terrible difficulties reading.
Which is a shame, because this is a great book. Tense, exciting, well plotted. I love the inclusion of police transcripts and interviews, and newspaper articles; I know that's a Marmite concept, but I think they're really fun and add a lot to a story. In this case, you can see a lot of angles on the murder that you never would have seen in the normal way.
This is a fantastic read, picking up a lot of issues, and it's going to do really well.
Promise Boys publishes on the 31st January, 2023 in the US and on the 2nd February, 2023 in the UK, using the same cover. I received a free copy and am giving an honest review.
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