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I'm going with 3 stars because I don't know how I feel about this novella. I wanted to love it. I didn't hate it. There were parts that I got lost in. However, there were parts that lost me. I own the hard cover, but had to borrow the audiobook from the library to get through it. Perhaps a re-r...
It was cover love that brought me to this book. After reading the synopsis, I knew that I had to read it. I was amazed how short this book was, yet the story had everything that I was looking for. Yetu needed to find her own life for the honor that was bestowed upon her was difficult. She was the ...
There are some very strange (and most likely racist) people who like to get married at plantations. So strange (unless they are racist cause the whole racist thing explains it). What Rivers Solomon does in this hard hitting and powerful short story is illustrate not only the horrors of slavery but...
Disclaimer: ARC via Netgalley. Also, Rivers Solomon’s preferred pronoun is they/them. I pre-ordered this novella in July, and at the time a group of people were upset that Halle Bailey was cast as Ariel in the live-action Disney remake of the Little Mermaid. While people kept cla...
This is a really good book. And I did not like it at all. Those things are not mutually exclusive. This book is a slave narrative filled with all the horror that entails. It is also, primarily, a character study. Solomon does, I think, a good job at drawing a complex and rich portrait of a queer b...
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