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A review by balancinghistorybooks
Dreams from the Endz by Faïza Guène
2.0
Guene has been on my radar for quite some time, so I decided to borrow this from the library when I spotted it nestled between two rather enormous books on the fiction shelves. The cultural details here were fascinating, but it felt rather too colloquial in its style; yes, I get that this was probably the point, but it was out of my comfort zone. Hell, I don't even know what 'man dem' means. (NB. My laptop automatically corrected that to 'man den', which sounds miles better to me. Beards and beer. Mmm.)
Whilst Dreams from the Endz was rather fitting to read in the current political situation, and in the face of the 'migrant crisis', I just didn't think it was very good in either its plot or its telling. Its characters were flat, and I would not read another of Guene's books again on this basis.
Whilst Dreams from the Endz was rather fitting to read in the current political situation, and in the face of the 'migrant crisis', I just didn't think it was very good in either its plot or its telling. Its characters were flat, and I would not read another of Guene's books again on this basis.