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3.49 AVERAGE
3.49 AVERAGE
2020 Backlog: Have they announced the TV rights for this yet? If not, they're coming.
I enjoyed that the book spent a lot of time in Burkina Faso, but otherwise I struggled to understand how or why the main character could be a spy (or why she needed to be, like her older sister), notwithstanding her attempt to answer this question, in the closing pages of the book, in response to a character who asks. I am also prejudiced against second-person narrations and epistolary novels, and this is both.
I am not giving [a:Lauren Wilkinson|17287509|Lauren Wilkinson|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1530050377p2/17287509.jpg]'s writing a 2 stars.
However, I have come to the realization that I do not like espionage/political thriller/spy books/tv shows (unless you're Matthew Rhys or Richard Madden). The characters and details lose me and I can't track enough of the plot to care about the story or characters. Any whoodles, onto the next book.
However, I have come to the realization that I do not like espionage/political thriller/spy books/tv shows (unless you're Matthew Rhys or Richard Madden). The characters and details lose me and I can't track enough of the plot to care about the story or characters. Any whoodles, onto the next book.
hopeful
informative
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
adventurous
challenging
informative
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
"My mother had been gone for years, but I still had good home training. I spoke and dressed well, did well in school, accepted that I had to be twice as upright for white folks to think I was half as virtuous."
"Pop had middle-class values: He taught me to pay my taxes in full, depend on a salary, and to avoid debt at all costs. Agathe and I never talked about money--not once--and she never worked outside the home, but the fact that she had to have squirreled some away to come back to Martinique connected money and autonomy in my mind. Robbie thought money was the root of all evil (which I took as a poor excuse for why he never had any); Helene saw money as power."
"Pop had middle-class values: He taught me to pay my taxes in full, depend on a salary, and to avoid debt at all costs. Agathe and I never talked about money--not once--and she never worked outside the home, but the fact that she had to have squirreled some away to come back to Martinique connected money and autonomy in my mind. Robbie thought money was the root of all evil (which I took as a poor excuse for why he never had any); Helene saw money as power."
Too slow to enjoy
The premise sounds fascinating and the beginning was pretty fast paced. Then I was so bored. I feel asleep every three pages. I anticipated a spy novel would have more action than this did. I was so hopeful, but eventually read the spoilers and skimmed to the end.
The premise sounds fascinating and the beginning was pretty fast paced. Then I was so bored. I feel asleep every three pages. I anticipated a spy novel would have more action than this did. I was so hopeful, but eventually read the spoilers and skimmed to the end.
adventurous
dark
informative
reflective
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