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A review by ebonyutley
The Beast of Kukuyo by Kevin Jared Hosein
3.0
The Beast of Kukuyo was well written. The dialogue is poignant, and the pull quotes from each chapter are stellar. Just reading them alone drives the plot. It’s a clever strategy. There are so many life lessons summed in a single sentence. Hosein writes well. Rune, the main character, is incredibly likeable. She’s bold and loyal and strong. The characters around her are also well crafted as they interact in service to her development.
My critique is the plot. So much happened so fast at the end, and yet, the main murder that opens the book is never fully addressed. I mean, we assume we know who the killer is, but we don’t know why or how. I like a book that wraps things up. It’s the whole point of reading fiction. There are so many unanswered questions in the real world, I want this fake world, especially one that gets more tragic as I turn the pages to at least offer me some explanations for why the bad guys do what they do.
There’s quite a bit of content in the book that doesn’t serve the story. It’s just there just because. The book is short enough for it to not really be a problem, but if you finish and feel as if something is missing, it’s because there is. I would have loved it if Hosein filled in a few of those gaps with more content about Trinidad and its Indian culture, but this is actually not a book that caters to outsiders, which I also fully appreciate. The beast demands that you enter its world, and which means survivors will have to live with their unanswered questions.
My critique is the plot. So much happened so fast at the end, and yet, the main murder that opens the book is never fully addressed. I mean, we assume we know who the killer is, but we don’t know why or how. I like a book that wraps things up. It’s the whole point of reading fiction. There are so many unanswered questions in the real world, I want this fake world, especially one that gets more tragic as I turn the pages to at least offer me some explanations for why the bad guys do what they do.
There’s quite a bit of content in the book that doesn’t serve the story. It’s just there just because. The book is short enough for it to not really be a problem, but if you finish and feel as if something is missing, it’s because there is. I would have loved it if Hosein filled in a few of those gaps with more content about Trinidad and its Indian culture, but this is actually not a book that caters to outsiders, which I also fully appreciate. The beast demands that you enter its world, and which means survivors will have to live with their unanswered questions.