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Long Way Down reviewed by Om Panchal, 8Elm If someone you love gets killed, find the person who killed them and kill them no crying no snitching A 5 star must-read book written...
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Long Way Down
reviewed by Om Panchal, 8Elm
If someone you love 
gets killed,
find the person
who killed them and
kill them
no crying
no snitching
A 5 star must-read book written by Jason Reynolds, takes place in sixty seconds as the protagonist goes down an elevator having a choice to murder the person who killed his brother or not.
‘…. but if the blood
inside of you is on the inside
of someone else,
you never want to
see it on the outside of them.’
As 15 year old Will ( William ) is in the elevator down to the lobby, with a gun in the back waistband of his jeans, he encounters people that are related to his brother. BUT THEY ARE DEAD. Every stop one person (a dead person) walks in, telling Will a bigger part of the story he knew about what happened to them and how they died, each story giving him an option to kill or not kill.
This is a beautiful book written in small poems and I would highly recommend it.
