Reviews - The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh

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The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh

Ingrid Persaud

4.22 AVERAGE

3littlewordz's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

When I first started The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh, I didn't quite know what I expected from the story. It started a bit slow, but once it took off, it did not let up!

I'm actually glad we knew Boysie was dying at the end, because my GOD that man was a MENACE! I felt for every single person that had to interact with Boysie, even Chunksee. He never had any good role models to look up to. I pretty much hated everyone in this story except the little bai and maybe Rosie. She really was just minding her business.

This is the first novel I've read by Ingrid Persaud and the first by a Trinidadian author as well. It exposed me to the meld between island and Indian cultures that occurred in the country. I started looking up several of the phases and foods but caught on pretty quickly based on the context in which a phase as used.

I didn't realize until the acknowledgements that this was a fictionalized account of a real man! Overall a great read.

Content Warnings

miz_minkers's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

sharonwashington's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

lee_sa's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

leadbelly's review against another edition

5.0

challenging hopeful medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Fabulous book, great story set in mid 20th century Trinidad narrated by four women whose lives are entwined with the psychopathic gangster Boysie Singh. Get ready to Google some if the words, as it's written with a good amount of Trinidadian accents and slang.