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nina_chan01 's review for:
The Removed
by Brandon Hobson
I really wanted to like this book a lot more than I did. I really wish that my low rating doesn't keep anyone from reading it because it's a beautiful story told from a perspective that one doesn't often experience. A perspective that's important and should get more opportunities to be expressed.
Hobson's story is a look at all the different ways that loss and injustice can break a person. Add in the tragic element of the Trail of Tears and how viscerally it paints the horrors for the reader, and it's a direct hit to the solar plexus. It's human and heartbreaking, and I'm sad to say that that's partly why I didn't enjoy it as much. I don't know if it's the season, the mindset, or just one sad thing too many, but, even though I connected to the characters, I kept finding reasons to walk away and breathe.
Many thanks to NetGalley and Ecco for the read.
Hobson's story is a look at all the different ways that loss and injustice can break a person. Add in the tragic element of the Trail of Tears and how viscerally it paints the horrors for the reader, and it's a direct hit to the solar plexus. It's human and heartbreaking, and I'm sad to say that that's partly why I didn't enjoy it as much. I don't know if it's the season, the mindset, or just one sad thing too many, but, even though I connected to the characters, I kept finding reasons to walk away and breathe.
Many thanks to NetGalley and Ecco for the read.