A review by baebae135
When No One Is Watching by Alyssa Cole

4.0

I loved the book! I loved that Theo (Theo is white) didn’t feel like a white savior but still used his privilege as an advantage to the black Community and seemed to actually somewhat use what he learned about redlining and gentrification to understand different aspects of his surroundings.

The ending was also nice! While the whole experimentation piece was crazy, I like how the old people end up helping not only by taking the actions they took but by giving advice to the main characters. I like how realistic it was despite how unfortunate because that’s realistically how situations like that are handled.