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Encontro by Natasha Brown

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readingkitty's review against another edition

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challenging emotional reflective fast-paced

4.5

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absolute_bookery's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Read this in one sitting and wow wow wow, what a book. An informed, brutally honest portrayal and narrative on race, class, conformity and choice. Excellently written and emotion provoking, can't believe this is a debut.

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annarose_'s review against another edition

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reflective

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

exploring life as a black british woman in london and the racism and workplace sexual harassment she experiences, this slice of life novella places us in our unnamed narrator's thoughts. navigating identity and existentialism, working in the City, life with her white boyfriend, his old money family, their expectations and her cancer diagnosis, this book packs a lot into 100 pages, but it does so effortlessly

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ymorii's review against another edition

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challenging emotional inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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bookswithhan's review against another edition

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challenging emotional reflective fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

I wasn't sure what to expect when I delved into this book. It was one I'd seen floating around on here and so I snatched it up in the half price sale to deal with my FOMO.

Assembly is beautifully written as a fractured narrative. The story jumps between different parts of a black woman's life; one part being where she is getting ready for her white boyfriend's family party and her daily life of work. This is interspersed with the revelation that the woman has cancer that she is seemingly trying to avoid and put to one side. She begins to question the cost of her ascending career alongside a life with a white man whilst dealing with a cancer diagnosis.

The writing, whilst beautiful, is angry and impactful and delivers a profound indictment of racism and classicism in Britain. Natasha Brown makes clear and raw observations of society through the woman's eyes that is done so with such majestic poetry.

This book may be short in length but is extremely rich and deep.

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kateflood's review against another edition

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5.0

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charlottejones952's review against another edition

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emotional reflective sad fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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shewantsthediction's review against another edition

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challenging dark mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

I've waited months for this one but it was disappointing. Highlighted a bunch of quotes about racism, but this felt more like a vehicle for delivering the quotes than a full-fledged story. (Plus, although beautifully phrased, any racialized individual will be overly familiar with these realities already and she's not really bringing anything new to the table.)

The characters felt like vague sketches, to the point I thought some of them (like her sister) were a metaphor. And the

cancer

felt like a cliche. So much of this was just corny and clumsily done.

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ashleyann's review against another edition

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challenging dark reflective sad fast-paced

3.75

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teresareads's review against another edition

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dark emotional reflective slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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