Such an quick read and love the themes. Even though it was American it still severed as an important book

Alex is invited by a friend to protest at the capital building in Texas. He doesn't know what they are protesting but he shows up because he has a crush on her. The book takes you through his day, his history, the people around him, a polititians notable filibuster, and his realizations on his stance.

To its core, this book is about seeing people for people; not for being orange or blue shirts. Also, how politics can be backwards, untruthful, and sneaky.

This book is so good! There are themes of drinking, pot, abortion, and vandalism. But it is all brought up in adult ways and Alex is a great main character with morals. The author was also at the capital building in 2014 and witnessed Wendy's filibuster on abortion, so it is based off his experience during this recent history event.

This book was short and enjoyable. It covered many themes, and not just for or against abortion.
I like how the relationships between the characters change, it was fast but done well.
favourite quotes:

-"Im a whiteshirt,"i finally say
-Theres nothing wrong with wanting to belong- you just have to belong with the right people

Rating: 3.5

This was an emotional and education read that touched on the topic of abortion. I am a big fan on how our main character grew from being completely ignorant to more educated. I enjoyed how both sides were shown and I think our main character did a good job in balancing between the two political view points when it comes to abortion nicely.

I do think the story is a bit too short so it was feeling repetitive and dragged out. There wasn't enough plot points in there and this was relatively a short book already.

Overall, I would recommend this read to anyone. It was a great introduction to why it's so important to stand up for your rights and to gain knowledge on topics that you're not familiar on. I showed how much an individual will go through to be heard and try to speak to those who can not.

Thank you to Flux for this ARC Copy on Netgalley.

This was not what I expected for some reason, but I enjoyed it very much! This book carried a very important topic very well, showing different views on the matter.

This book was very easy to read, despite a very serious topic being prevalent throughout. The topic of abortion and Roen vs Wade felt very current, considering recent events similarly in America.

I did find some of the politics talk a bit confusing, I did find some other parts confusing as-well as this book is set in America and I don’t live in America so may have been a bit lost on me. Nevertheless, I did really enjoy it. It was a very quick read and only took me a few hours to finish.

I thought that the book showed that education on birth control, abortions and womens rights need to he covered and taught a lot more.

I gave this book 4⭐️

Thank you thank you NetGalley for this eArc this book was so beautiful.
I am rating this book 4.75
The only reason I’m not giving this book 5 stars is because at times there was some weird sentence structure.
This book overall had such an amazing theme and I loved that it told two stories in one. One of those stories an important event about the abortion rights and I think everyone should read this book for an insight onto the ways that abortion rights are so much more than abortion rights. I loved the fact that this book covered that not only women may need abortions, because trans and non binary people exist too! The main character Alex was an interesting perspective to read this story from. At times he had me so very frustrated, but the development of his character was so perfect and I had chills towards the end because of his whole journey (even though it was only in the space of one day). The second plot point of this book was also amazing, because oh how it emphasised that when you stick together you can make yourself heard and fight for what is right. This was a very easy read (in the sense of reading words and time) and I devoured it in a day. I think that everyone should read this and I will be recommending this book to literally everyone!

It might seem odd to think of something that just happened in 2013 as historical fiction, but this was the filibuster that Wendy Davis did to stop an anti-abortion bill from being voted on in the Texas Legislature. She had to do the filibuster the old fashioned way, but standing there and speaking only on the topic of the bill.
Using that as a background, we have Alex, who is doing community service because he was involved in a vandalism, for which he turned himself in. He has no friends, because the friends he used to have, he doesnt’ want to hang out with any more.

So, when he gets a call from a girl he has had a crush on, who asks him to come down to the state capital to protest, he doesn’t think anything about it. Only, it turns out that the girl wants him to protest *for* the anti-abortion bill, rather than against it.

At first, he figures it doesn’t matter, that he gets to hang out with this girl, but as the night goes on, he listens to what is being spoken about, and he realizes that he doesn’t agree that the bill should go through.

At first, when reading this book, that goes hour by hour about what happened on the floor, while Senator Davis spoke, I wondered how the author got so much detail in. Turned out, he was reporting on it, at the time it happened, and so had extensive notes. Now, that is my kind of research for an historical novel.

It was especially poignant, seeing how things have turned out now. What I liked was how Alex came to his own conclusion. I also like his sense of humor, where he talks about the filibuster was a way to kill a bill by boring it to death. And that the line of people at the capital made it look as though they had opened an apple store, and people were waiting for the newest iphone.

Oh, and the reason for the title? Sen. Davis has to keep going until midnight, without stopping. So, she is fighting to make it to midnight.

<em>Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.</em>

Wow! What an amazing book!!
Would love to read more from the author.
Thankyou netgalley for the Arc!

4.25/5. I was most drawn to this book because of its cover. After reading the overview, I was actually quite excited to read it; mainly because it takes place in 2013 and I want a blast from the past read. So that was my mindset starting this novel. I quickly realized that this book is so much more than that. This is a book that everyone should read. It peels back the layers of the "it's not my problem" mentality so many in this country have about abortion. I really enjoyed this book and feel like it did a beautiful job of handling a politically-sensitive issue.

I received an advance review copy for free through NetGalley, and I am leaving this review voluntarily

Thank you, North Star Editions, for the advance reading copy.

This book is for the ones who feel like what matters to others do not matter to them because they do not belong to the same gender, community or likewise.

This is the story of a young character who felt like the issue of abortion didn’t matter to him as he’s a guy and it didn’t matter much for him. But the more he gets involved in the matter, he comes to realise why it matters. The character development is one of the best I have read in young adult fiction. Well done with the writing and the plot line.

This is the story of Alex who has lost his best friend and has been having the worst times. However, he does hope to get more time with his crush and gets involved in the movement for the abortion bill HB2. He gets to meet someone and the situation he gets involved himself doesn’t allow him to be neutral anymore. He has to get involved. This is a story for every youngster and every adult out there to read.

The book is quite short. The writing is so easy to read!

I say let’s not lose this opportunity to read a good book and also think about how we are all involved in shaping the society.