A review by epoullio
Benito Cereno by Herman Melville

3.0

This novella was my first taste of Melville and I can confidently say that unless my grade depends on it, I will not be reading his work again. The language was just really hard to follow and I found myself having to reread sentences three or four times to even get an idea of what he was saying. I don't know if the writing style of this story is unique to him or if that was the general style of 1855, but I found half of the things in each sentence useless and unimportant to the overarching idea. The only reason I gave it three stars was for the plot twist.