A book similar to Romeo and Juliet

By clear_bowl4553

This book honestly blew me away. I think it’s about a boy and a girl from totally different social classes and races. I don’t wanna explain it wrong, but it felt like darker-skinned people were the ones with money and lighter-skinned people were stuck in slums. It’s told from both of their perspectives too, so you get their sides. It reads kind of like a teen romance, and I found it in the same section as stuff like The Hunger Games. It’s weird calling it dystopian though, because it kind of feels like a role reversal that’s basically what happened in real US history. Maybe I’m overthinking it, but it felt like swapping the power between white people and Black people, and I guess that would seem “dystopian” to some folks. They fall for each other, but everything separates them. Later the boy gets pulled into an anti-government group, and they end up taking an official’s daughter—the same girl. And then there’s this super intense/steamy scene between them even though she’s being held captive, which I’m still not sure how I feel about. The cover was mostly white with their head silhouettes in red, like “haves” and “have-nots” vibes. I don’t even know if “misfits” or something like that is part of the title. Spoilers-ish, but here: I think the girl (woman) ends up pregnant and nobody knows. The boy (now a man) gets caught and hanged for being in the group. And the girl is there, crying, watching the execution.