spam_with_books 's review for:

Blonde Roots by Bernardine Evaristo
3.0

4 stars

I really liked the inversion of the "races" through the storyline and the storytelling. The multiple POVs made the book more "real" and everything is written and addapted according to real events that took place during the slave captures and the segregation: the enequalities, the "scientific proofs" of supperiority, the thoughts of colonizers and the self-hate of slaves exposed to another culture that despise them.

I also enjoyed the double/ tripple timeline even if it was somehow hard to get the grasp of it at first.

The characters are so real but the story so horrible, shocking and sad

beware of the trigger warnings before reading, if you are sensible to any kind of torture, r*pe, agr**sions, racism, ...