A review by husnaibrahim_
The Deep by Rivers Solomon

5.0

I seriously loved this book! It’s not really that the writing was overall perfect but it’s the way the story was told and how you’d need to kind of slow down a bit to process it but not in a bad way. 

I think the whole historian thing and how overwhelming it was for just one person to carry the burden, especially after we got to see how Yetu had lost so much of herself during her time as one, was so unique and written so well. We could sympathise with her and still understand why it was done that way in the past. 

I also really liked that we got to see the relationship she had with her Amaba was different before and during her time as a historian. It felt like a very realistic depiction of a west Africa Mother-daughter relationship in some way. 

This book felt so short but I think it was also properly done. I would definitely be recommending and reading this book again