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travfore 's review for:
A Brief History of Seven Killings
by Marlon James
I'm tending towards 4 stars as I started enjoying the book in the last 50 or so pages. But it felt like a slog at times getting there. It was hard for me to understand the thread of the story in the early going as there are many voices and they provide there own stories. Sometimes it's tied to a central thread, sometimes not. Sometimes it's not clear until much later how a part of the story fit in.
I saw in the acknowledgements that the author thanked a friend for giving him the suggestion that the story could proceed through many seemingly unrelated voices. Much like *As I Lay Dying*. An apt guide to what is going on here. I felt lost reading that book the first time too. *As I Lay Dying* is a bit easier to revisit given the relative brevity of the chapters and book.
So, this story is layered in voice by voice like a mosaic until a clear(er) thread appears. With more concentrated effort it might have been clearer to me earlier on, but I didn't have the energy then.
Maybe I'll revisit one day.
I saw in the acknowledgements that the author thanked a friend for giving him the suggestion that the story could proceed through many seemingly unrelated voices. Much like *As I Lay Dying*. An apt guide to what is going on here. I felt lost reading that book the first time too. *As I Lay Dying* is a bit easier to revisit given the relative brevity of the chapters and book.
So, this story is layered in voice by voice like a mosaic until a clear(er) thread appears. With more concentrated effort it might have been clearer to me earlier on, but I didn't have the energy then.
Maybe I'll revisit one day.