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A review by soulkissed2003
Sugar in the Blood: A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire by Andrea Stuart
1.0
This book was recommended in the author's notes of another book I read earlier this year. In the first book, the characters' lives were affected by the rhythms of life on sugar cane plantations on an island in the Caribbean. In this book, "Sugar in the Blood", the author describes how her own ancestors came to the islands and raised their families on these plantations. Some did so as slaves.
I expected something akin to "Roots", a sort of storytelling (and yes, I know that "Roots" is known to be a false accounting of Haley's family tree). In making the comparison, my hope was for something that would grab my interest, keep me ready to read more. Obviously this was not going to be a story of warm feelings and happy moments. But what I found was that the telling was dry, like an overdone piece of toast when you don't have a drink handy to wash it down. I think this could have been something epic if it didn't read like a college thesis paper.
I expected something akin to "Roots", a sort of storytelling (and yes, I know that "Roots" is known to be a false accounting of Haley's family tree). In making the comparison, my hope was for something that would grab my interest, keep me ready to read more. Obviously this was not going to be a story of warm feelings and happy moments. But what I found was that the telling was dry, like an overdone piece of toast when you don't have a drink handy to wash it down. I think this could have been something epic if it didn't read like a college thesis paper.