Washington Post’s 18 Books to Read this Fall Refinery29’s 12 Books Everyone Will be Talking about This Season A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year A New York Public Library Top Ten Best Books of 2019 Book Riot’s Fall Books to Add to Your TBR Pile ABA Top Ten Indie Next Pick ABA Indies Introduce selection Junior Library Guild Selection B&N Teen Blog’s 20 Biggest YA Debuts of the Fall Bookish’s Fall 2019 Can’t-Miss Young Adult Books Bustle’s 20 Captivating New Books From 2019 To Snap You Out Of a Reading Slump “Gripping and timely.”
—People “The novel Black girl nerds have been waiting for.”
—Refinery29 “Remarkable, innovative, heart-pounding.”
—BuzzFeed “Morris immerses readers in the world of gaming with her charged, timely, and witty debut.”
—Entertainment Weekly “[A] snappy YA debut.”
—Washington Post “Unlike anything out there . . . Easily the best debut novel of the year.”
—Paste Magazine “A book that knocks you off your feet while dropping the kind of knowledge that'll keep you down for the count. Prepare to BE slain.”
—Nic Stone, New York Times bestselling author of Dear Martin and Odd One Out “More than a novel,
SLAY is a conversation about safe spaces, why they’re necessary for minorities, and why we should champion their right to exist without being branded exclusionary or racist.”
—Booklist, starred review “[A] not-to-be-missed YA debut.”
—Publishers Weekly, starred review “Morris does a fantastic job of showing diversity within the black community. . . . Gamers and black activists alike will be ready to SLAY all day.”
—Kirkus Reviews “Readers are invited to learn about the black experience in game culture through a compelling new lens. Exploring different versions of the African American experience, this is an important title for public and school libraries.”
—School Library Journal “Kiera is so many of us Blerds; and Morris has truly captured the holistic experiences of many Black digital users.”
—The Horn Book “Readers will cheer for Kiera as she slays her own demons, and they’ll come away from the novel desperately wishing SLAY were more than the product of Morris’ imagination.”
—BookPage “
SLAY doesn't play games with its bold content and character development, guiding readers through various complex levels that explore the wide, gorgeous African diaspora.”
—Shelf Awareness “Offers a richly global perspective on the Black diaspora.”
—BCCB “Wildly entertaining and impressively insightful. Morris is absolutely an author to watch.”
—Sara Grochowski, McLean and Eakin Booksellers (Petoskey, MI) “I was captivated from the very first page and found myself quickly falling in love with Kiera but even more for what Kiera stood for. I cannot wait for more from Brittany Morris!”
—Teresa Steele, Old Firehouse Books (Fort Collins, CO)
“SLAY is so much more than just another book about video games: it’s about a girl who carves a space in the world for herself and completely owns it, and it’s about the microaggressions and the can-I-touch-your-hairs and all the things that come with being one of a handful of black kids in a school. It isn’t afraid to pull punches where it counts; sometimes you see them coming, sometimes you don’t.”
