A review by charisma_reads
Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0


What.Did.I.Just.Read?!

This book was funny (in a cringe way), saddening and had all elements of happiness, love, karma and how to watch the rise of a black king and his down fall. To say this book was entertaining would be an understatement. This book kept me engaged and I devoured it completely. The racism was terrible and cringe worthy and to see that the all of the white characters in this story didn’t realize it, was sad but nothing new. The author did a great job at showing how racism is still very much alive in sales and businesses. Most cringe worthy though goes to Clyde for making his WUSS group and showing how being white and Jealous that BIPOC people are shining like the diamonds they need to be, shows how racist he really is. Stating slurs like “white lives matter too” and “reverse racism” and calling the Happy Campers a terrorist group and racists, well is NOTHING new but still ever so cringe worthy when reading it in a fiction book. 

We follow the main character, Darren (Buck, as he re-invents himself) and watch him from the beginning being a shift supervisor, to a sales person at SUMWUUN, then saving the company, being the best sales person alive, starting happy campers and then, his down fall... (I wont reveal that part). It is sad to see how he changes COMPLETELY throughout the back and not really for the better. The changes are quite visible and honestly quite disgusting as well. He lost himself and became someone he promised everyone he wouldn’t become into. 


All in all, the message is quite clear. He changed, yes. But he received an opportunity to better himself being the only black sales man in an all white company and eventually gave the opportunity for all BIPOC individuals so they can succeed and changed not only there lives, but also the sales industry as well. 


Bravo to Mateo who wrote a clever book whilst touching on real topics that are engaging and yet reluctantly basically never written about.
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