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A review by themanfromdelmonte
Bacchanal by Veronica G. Henry
3.0
I wanted to like this book and for the first three quarters of it, I did. I liked the Black perspective and the description of the Depression ravaged communites the Carnival operates amongst.
Then Liza goes to see Ago and it all goes a bit sideways. Everything's leading up to the confontation between Oya and Ahiku and I wondered why it had taken this long to come about, unless Oya was waiting for a suitable vessel through which to operate.
There doesn't seem to be any rationale for Liza or Twiggy or their abandonment by their parents. The meeting between the demons in the hotel in Oklahoma City stuck out like a sore thumb. What purpose, in the greater arc of the story, did it serve?
Lastly, the supernatural elements felt a bit bolted on. Suddenly Liza has powers! But she doesn't wield them, Oya does. And then the story just stops.
Then Liza goes to see Ago and it all goes a bit sideways. Everything's leading up to the confontation between Oya and Ahiku and I wondered why it had taken this long to come about, unless Oya was waiting for a suitable vessel through which to operate.
There doesn't seem to be any rationale for Liza or Twiggy or their abandonment by their parents. The meeting between the demons in the hotel in Oklahoma City stuck out like a sore thumb. What purpose, in the greater arc of the story, did it serve?
Lastly, the supernatural elements felt a bit bolted on. Suddenly Liza has powers! But she doesn't wield them, Oya does. And then the story just stops.