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A review by ageorge1877
Black Sugar by Miguel Bonnefoy
3.0
Yeah man this is decent. Some old ass pirate treasure gets buried deep under a Venezuelan village and three hundred years later everyone's still thinkin about it. 'Wouldnt it be nice to find the treasure,' say this one family. 'Let's pursue this in a very healthy and normal manner.'
It's a technically solid story and a good easy to follow allegory for the colonisation of this part of the Americas. It doesn't really do anything wrong, but it doesn't really lurch to any great heights either. I think I would have liked Bonnefoy to get a bit closer to the characters and the setting and to really build up the sense of the community here. As it is, the more stood-back, tale-round-a-fire style of storytelling made it feel a little bit meat n potatoes. There was an opportunity here for something with much more emotional force had the author (treasure joke coming this is a treasure joke okay here it is treasure joke) dug a little deeper.
It's a technically solid story and a good easy to follow allegory for the colonisation of this part of the Americas. It doesn't really do anything wrong, but it doesn't really lurch to any great heights either. I think I would have liked Bonnefoy to get a bit closer to the characters and the setting and to really build up the sense of the community here. As it is, the more stood-back, tale-round-a-fire style of storytelling made it feel a little bit meat n potatoes. There was an opportunity here for something with much more emotional force had the author (treasure joke coming this is a treasure joke okay here it is treasure joke) dug a little deeper.