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A review by lynseyreads_
Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
4.0
Having a hard time rating this one, which makes sense since it took me almost 2 months to finish. I’m somewhere between a 3 and a 4, and struggling round up or down.
There are emotions and stories from this book that will stick with me, but at about 200 pages I felt like I was done. At 300 I was just determined to finish, and at 350 I kept saying “will this book ever end??” There wasn’t much plot left in the last 180 pages or so, and so many characters had been added that I was just reading hoping to hear more from/about the characters I most cared about.
Which sounds like it wasn’t well written, but it was! The last 15 pages or so answered some questions I had been carrying since the early pages of the book. Some answers were less satisfying than others…
Also, the premise is that Eleanor is sharing a recording with her two children, but very little of the book is actually her speaking. It made me confused how much Byron and Benny knew vs. how much I knew as a reader.
There are emotions and stories from this book that will stick with me, but at about 200 pages I felt like I was done. At 300 I was just determined to finish, and at 350 I kept saying “will this book ever end??” There wasn’t much plot left in the last 180 pages or so, and so many characters had been added that I was just reading hoping to hear more from/about the characters I most cared about.
Which sounds like it wasn’t well written, but it was! The last 15 pages or so answered some questions I had been carrying since the early pages of the book. Some answers were less satisfying than others…
Also, the premise is that Eleanor is sharing a recording with her two children, but very little of the book is actually her speaking. It made me confused how much Byron and Benny knew vs. how much I knew as a reader.