Slay by Brittney Morris

 Book Review:

Slay  

🎮🎮🎮🎮🎮/5🎮

This book was my blind date with a book I picked up when I visited my colleagues at 

Kiera is one of three Black students at her school, the other two being her sister Steph and her boyfriend Malcolm. It’s exhausting and they all handle it differently. 

SLAY is a virtual world that is a safe and amazing gaming space for Black players created by Kiera. It’s a space that values and respects and offers a freedom for players that the day to day world doesn’t give room for. And no one knows she is the creator, Emerald. 

When the world of the game spills into the outside world and a young man is murdered it puts the spotlight on SLAY and Kiera is going to have to defend her creation and those who have come to rely on this virtual world as a place of respite. Can Kiera save the space she has created from lawsuits and trolls? Who is Dred? And what about Malcolm and their relationship, is it healthy and what can she or does she want to do about it? 

A timely and important read. I don’t want to say too much more because I don't want to spoil the impact of the story and how it unfolds.

I will say that this is a must read!!!

(Finished August 14, 2021)