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aylaolau 's review for:
The Violin Conspiracy
by Brendan Slocumb
I loved how music and playing an instrument is described in this book. But I do feel that once that experience was described it didn’t need to be done over and over again. It began to feel repetitive and that took away from the narrative.
The story put the reader into the mind of being a black man in America and it does it so well I felt like I was in the moment with the character. It did feel as though the entirety of white characters were awful racists - it made each interaction seem predictable and not believable. Racism is a huge problem in America, especially the structural racism so ingrained in the American educational systems, but it made the white characters feel like caricatures and not real people.
Minus 1 star because I figured out who stole the violin in the first 50 pages. This made the thriller aspect nonexistent.
On the whole a good debut novel.
The story put the reader into the mind of being a black man in America and it does it so well I felt like I was in the moment with the character. It did feel as though the entirety of white characters were awful racists - it made each interaction seem predictable and not believable. Racism is a huge problem in America, especially the structural racism so ingrained in the American educational systems, but it made the white characters feel like caricatures and not real people.
Minus 1 star because I figured out who stole the violin in the first 50 pages. This made the thriller aspect nonexistent.
On the whole a good debut novel.