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dark
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
About a week out from finishing this and I still don’t know what to think. It was a book club selection for this month, and I absolutely needed to discuss it at the end. I needed to talk out what we thought actually happened in the story.
There were parts I really enjoyed and thought the book did really well. The details about record collecting, and making music from old tracks was described really well, and successfully made me care about something I didn’t before reading the book. The overall themes of race and cultural appropriation in music, were also done well.
What didn’t work for me was the sudden change of pace and tone of the book. The last third of the book felt like an entirely different book than the first two thirds. While I can see why the change happened, and how it was a part of the narrative, it left me quite confused about what happened.
There were parts I really enjoyed and thought the book did really well. The details about record collecting, and making music from old tracks was described really well, and successfully made me care about something I didn’t before reading the book. The overall themes of race and cultural appropriation in music, were also done well.
What didn’t work for me was the sudden change of pace and tone of the book. The last third of the book felt like an entirely different book than the first two thirds. While I can see why the change happened, and how it was a part of the narrative, it left me quite confused about what happened.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Torture, Police brutality, Medical trauma, and Murder
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