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3.5 ⭐ I listened to this is a full cast audio. The audiobook is incredibly well done. However, the last hour was missing on my digital download. Thank goodness for TBBS as they helped fill in the last hour. I was a tad sad. None of the libraries around me, had Promise Boys on audio! This is a mystery about a prep school that has some very, strict rules. The idea is to teach boys to be “men”. However, this is not a happy go lucky school,

Excellent teen mystery set in an all boys school in Washington, D.C. The principal is murdered and three boys are suspects and must work together to clear their names.

Excellent full-cast audio production.

Three young boys are accused of killing the principal. The story starts with a literal BANG. Multiple points of view share the outlooks of the suspects, families, friends, teachers, and community. There was a pretty big plot hole but overall it was an intense read that left me with just as many questions about our system as answers.

This is a YA dark academia. It is about this prestigious school that “vows to turn boys into men”. They offer scholarships for disadvantaged students. But the school rules/discipline could be extreme and rigid. One day the principal was found murdered and there are three main suspects. I enjoyed this book because you will know these characters slowly so your impression about them will change like don‘t judge until you have all the facts. ⬇️

I really liked this whodunit told from the perspectives of three students accused of murdering the principal of their prep school. I‘ll be reading all the Nick Brooks books from here out 👏

Yessssss!!! ✊✊✊

Wow! This was really good!! I read the PV via bookishfirst and was hooked. A whodunit at an all boys school where our main suspects are POC (black and latine). The characters were all great, the need to know WHO and why!!, And the setting very alarming. Very contemporary/real world problems. tw for racism, savior complexes, and harassment

I liked the story but I have mixed feelings about the full cast audio.

I know they always say don‘t judge a book by it‘s cover but this is one that I picked up just because that cover is 😍! I am so glad I read this book because I finished it in one day. The determination of the boys to prove their innocence was just amazing. This was definitely a 5 ⭐️ read for me!

As an idea, I think this is important (if not a little heavy handed tbqh) but as a mystery, even as a YA one, this felt obvious from the jump. Each teenage character was fleshed out well but the rest fell flat for me.

Read this for my Instagram book club this month and loved it!! A murder mystery where a principal has been shot and three students are the key suspects. Set in an all boys school in DC, this was a fun whodunnit YA book. Not only do we get POVs from all the suspects but there‘s lots of other chapters from the perspective of other students, teachers, community members, and more. Engaging format and an addictive read. Couldn‘t put it down

J.B., Trey, & Ramón are 3 of the pupils at Urban Promise Prep School. The school has strict rules & an even stricter Principal. Principal Moore swears by the results that his disciplinary methods produce, but he seems to be unravelling, jumping on the tiniest infractions of the rules & even threatening good students with expulsion. J.B., Trey, & Ramón all have run-ins with Principal Moore, & all 3 are given detention (continued)

This novel is an absolute force. One of my favorite things about this novel, other than the actual story itself, is the style used by Brooks. Combining texts, emails and articles with the multiple points of view was a great way to tell the story. I liked how Promise Boys started off in the middle, grabbing me immediately, and then jumped to the beginning, building up to the murder and showing how the characters got to where they did as suspects.

The characters felt realistic and the author had you wanting to learn more about them. I also like a good murder mystery and this was pretty good. This was a quick and easy read. I did enjoy learning about each of the main characters, but I felt there were too many different points of view about each of the boys. There maybe could have been a little more about the murder and finding out who was responsible.