Thank you so much to the publishers for providing me with an eArc of this book!!

The title may shock many people, but honestly, this is such an important memoir to read.

This book was so thought-provoking and one to definitely read and recommend to others. Obioma shares his own personal experience with being a black man and embracing both of his cultures. As a stage actor, I was very intrigued to read about his experiences and also shocked.

This is a great book for people to read to educate themselves on the continued racism in Britain and honestly around the world. Ugoala's experience is one of many, and we all need to step up and educate ourselves further so we can educate ourselves and future generations to come.

This is another book that I will be adding to the stack of books that people must read!

This book covers in the moment topics such as racism, sexism, and male dominance. The book is coming at a very important time with what is going on in the world e.g. Geroge Floyd. The author has researched the book very well and has used his own personal history as a basis. Overall, this was a vital read and we should be encouraging others to read this.

This is a first for me by the author and one I enjoyed and would read more of their work. The book cover is eye-catching and appealing and would spark my interest if in a bookshop. Thank you very much to the author, publisher and Netgalley for this ARC.

Huge fan of Obi from the musical theatre world, so when I found out he had a book coming out this year, it was very much anticipated and one of the books I was most looking forward to in 2022.
So, it really pains me to say that I really did not like this book.
I have read lots of books on similar topics over the years and this book just didn't connect with me. Was it a memoir? Was it a political statement? Was it educational? Unfortunately I felt like it was trying to be too many things, and therefore missed the mark on all of them. I wasn't sure what the point of the book was? What was I supposed to get from it?
I actually found it quite dull at times.
As I said, I'm so gutted I feel this way as I think Obi is great and I was hoping for so much from this book - but I really really didn't enjoy this at all, and I can't say what the book has left me with.

Everyone should read this book. If you are interested in learning more about different lived experiences this book is just for you, Obioma Ugoala mixes statistics and tales of his and his families lives to give a detailed look at life in Britain for black men.
Since reading this book I have thought back to it on many occasions and can’t wait for my physical copy to arrive so I can reread.

This book is fantastic, I have been recommending it left and right since first reading it. Not only is it incredibly readable, thought provoking and entertaining, it is massively commercial and genre influencing. Not only is it a millennial memoir, with it's comments on changing politics, online dating and pop culture references, it speaks originally on race and gender in a manner I've not come across before in a major publication. It seems backwards to recommend a book as original on the basis that its author is a man, but the millennial memoir genre is overwhelmingly filled with books by ciswomen. The stories Ugoala shares are shocking, often deeply so, and as a white millennial ciswoman I felt spoken to firmly but kindly, and included in the audience for the book whilst not necessarily it's primary target. The balance of competing aims was so wonderfully trod. I was nervous, knowing Ugoala from his work on Hamilton and Frozen, my expectations were tempered, but he is immensely skilled as a writer, and his "other" career is almost an irrelevance to this book.

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Obi is a screen and stage actor, in fact it was only once I’d started reading that I realised I saw him recently in Frozen! He is also a man of mixed Nigerian and Irish heritage, two cultures which his parents went to great lengths to ensure he and his brothers embraced.

In this book he shares his own personal story and experiences of growing up as a black man in Britain, and how race and masculinity are portrayed in our society.

Judging by the title you would think that I (a white, middle aged woman from Kent) wouldn’t necessarily be the target audience for this book but, as the author points out it is all of our responsibilities to educate ourselves, and in turn our children. Would urge everyone to pick this one up when it’s published on 31st March.

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