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f18's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Violence, Blood, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Ableism, Biphobia, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Excrement, Vomit, and Alcohol
krystala's review against another edition
1.0
Apparently this is based off of an Edgar Allen Poe story, one I haven't read, so it really didn't make much sense overall. I didn't care for this one at all. I don't mind being confused in a story if it all comes together, but this one didn't. I get his mental state was off, but this wasn't spooky or scary or mysterious at all.
theobviousmystery's review against another edition
3.0
Its truly magical how the combination of common materials such as glass, tin and silver create portals that bend reality and bring forth your reflection and its very own pocket dimension. Our reflection that lives in the mirror may be the only being in this universe to know your deepest darkest secrets.
Yet it sits there, a silent companion, a creature who's reality is entirely dependent on you. The only companion who can show you as how others see us. Our doppelganger.
Yet, it unnerves me to think that though we can view our doppelganger, what if one day we hear them as well. Then another thought occurred to me. The voice in your head. That tiny voice that only you can hear. What if it wasn't yours?
Will Williams is a short story authored by Namwali Serpell as a part of Amazon Disorder series. It is a unique retelling of a short story by Edgar Allan Poe that goes by the name William Wilson. The book follows the story of an underprivileged African American man who is haunted by a supposed doppelganger.
The narrative, set in first person view, helps us view the story through the eyes of Will and dictates how Will's doppelganger tries to ruin him whenever Will tries to get his life back on track. You are shown, through a window, true psychological horror as the protagonist confronts and faces his adversary through multiple instances that occur through out the book.
The story too is open to multiple interpretations, as the events trigger multiple crossroads and threads to unravel that question Will's sanity or even the existence of his double.
With an elegant but graphic writing, Serpell does justice to the Disorder series and she pitches us head first into a theme park that only allows you out when you're done with all the rides!
This is my second book from the Disorder series, the first being The Best Girls by Min Jin Lee.
Yet it sits there, a silent companion, a creature who's reality is entirely dependent on you. The only companion who can show you as how others see us. Our doppelganger.
Yet, it unnerves me to think that though we can view our doppelganger, what if one day we hear them as well. Then another thought occurred to me. The voice in your head. That tiny voice that only you can hear. What if it wasn't yours?
Will Williams is a short story authored by Namwali Serpell as a part of Amazon Disorder series. It is a unique retelling of a short story by Edgar Allan Poe that goes by the name William Wilson. The book follows the story of an underprivileged African American man who is haunted by a supposed doppelganger.
The narrative, set in first person view, helps us view the story through the eyes of Will and dictates how Will's doppelganger tries to ruin him whenever Will tries to get his life back on track. You are shown, through a window, true psychological horror as the protagonist confronts and faces his adversary through multiple instances that occur through out the book.
The story too is open to multiple interpretations, as the events trigger multiple crossroads and threads to unravel that question Will's sanity or even the existence of his double.
With an elegant but graphic writing, Serpell does justice to the Disorder series and she pitches us head first into a theme park that only allows you out when you're done with all the rides!
This is my second book from the Disorder series, the first being The Best Girls by Min Jin Lee.
ladymirtazapine's review against another edition
5.0
Content note: violence
Brilliant short story. Definitely going to read more of her work.
Brilliant short story. Definitely going to read more of her work.
aklatlibro's review against another edition
2.0
Not the best one I’ve read out of the Disorder Collection. It was okay.
blackbibliophile's review against another edition
5.0
Now this was a quick, GOOD READ!
He thinks that another is the cause of all of his troubles, but the reality is he’s the cause of his own problems. He’s managed to see himself as separate from the evil side of him that commits wrongdoing and attempts to place the blame on a doppelgänger.
A creepy, but fascinating read. I’ll have to check out more from this author as I was thoroughly impressed with her writing style.
He thinks that another is the cause of all of his troubles, but the reality is he’s the cause of his own problems. He’s managed to see himself as separate from the evil side of him that commits wrongdoing and attempts to place the blame on a doppelgänger.
A creepy, but fascinating read. I’ll have to check out more from this author as I was thoroughly impressed with her writing style.
sch91086's review against another edition
4.0
A really fantastic short story- sort of mind bendy. I was questioning what was going on the whole time, and the ending, IIRC, was really powerful. The audio was perfect.
nadinekc's review against another edition
4.0
Loved the modern resetting, but I feel like she could have plumbed a little deeper with it.
fictionofthefix's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
3.5
sammiisammii_'s review against another edition
4.0
A poignant and intelligent adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s WILLIAM WILSON, which transposes the Gothic motifs of paranoia and the doppelgänger into the contexts of the School to Prison Pipeline and the mass incarceration of Black American men.