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Dealing in Dreams
Dealing in Dreams
Dealing in Dreams
Audiobook9 hours

Dealing in Dreams

Written by Lilliam Rivera

Narrated by Marisol Ramirez

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

3.5/5

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About this audiobook

The Outsiders meets Mad Max: Fury Road in this fast-paced dystopian novel about sisterhood and the cruel choices people are forced to make in order to survive. At night, Las Mal Criadas own these streets. Sixteen-year-old Nalah leads the fiercest all-girl crew in Mega City. That role brings with it violent throwdowns and access to the hottest boydega clubs, but Nala quickly grows weary of her questionable lifestyle. Her dream is to get off the streets and make a home in the exclusive Mega Towers, in which only a chosen few get to live. To make it to the Mega Towers, Nalah must prove her loyalty to the city's benevolent founder and cross the border in a search of the mysterious gang the Ashe Riders. Led by a reluctant guide, Nalah battles crews and her own doubts but the closer she gets to her goal the more she loses sight of everything-and everyone-she cares about. Nalah must choose whether or not she's willing to do the unspeakable to get what she wants. Can she discover that home is not where you live but whom you chose to protect before she loses the family she's created for good?
LanguageEnglish
Release dateMar 5, 2019
ISBN9781501977886
Author

Lilliam Rivera

Lilliam Rivera is an award-winning writer and author of numerous young adult novels, including The Education of Margot Sanchez, We Light Up the Sky, Never Look Back, and Dealing In Dreams. She is also author of the middle grade Goldie Vance books. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, and Elle, to name a few. Lilliam lives in Los Angeles. Visit her at LilliamRivera.com.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I read this title when it first came out and fell in love! It's Bronx. It's Latino. It's amazing!
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Conceptually I thought this had many interesting elements, a dystopian setting with a drug epidemic, a woman who abuses power much the way men have, young men objectified by women, and girl gangs simultaneously terrorizing and protecting while also putting on gladiator type events as the athletes of the moment.. The plot gave me a lot to think about but with the exception of Nena (the newest and most expendable/critiqued recruit of main character Nalah’s gang) I don’t know that I was ever as emotionally engaged with this one as I wanted to be. There were all these relationships, Nalah and her best friend Truck, Nalah with her family or Nalah with Books, where the situation was compelling yet at the same time didn’t dig quite deep enough, those dynamics rarely felt as thoroughly explored as maybe they could have been.Also, while Nalah does change over the course of the story, aside from that and the status of her friendship with Truck, the ending is otherwise left open, if you’re the type of reader who needs resolution you won’t find much of that here.