A review by estellegodard
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James

slow-paced

• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

2.0

there is absolutely nothing brief about this book. it is unnecessarily long and slow with far too many characters. by the time I was 200 pages in I was seriously contemplating dnf’ing it, but given it won the man booker prize I was determined to see what the fuss was about. I will not lie, by page 500 the book did pick up and it became interesting. however, why on earth did it take that long for a book to get me invested in its characters? why did it take so long for it to make sense ? all these different storylines overlap loosely and I wish there was a greater reveal and a great connection to make all this worthwhile. unfortunately this was not the case and as excited as I was to read this, it was a slog.