A review by bookedupandbusy
The Bread the Devil Knead by Lisa Allen-Agostini

3.0

SYNOPSIS: Set in Trinidad Alethea is nearly 40 years old and is in an abusive relationship with Leo. When she witnesses another woman, killed by her husband, she begins to change her life.

This story comes with a major trigger warning, it is the physical and mental abuse that Althea experiences that drives the whole story and the episodes described are heavy and traumatic. I particularly found Althea’s childhood very disturbing and a big factor of how and why she accepted abuse by her partner as an adult. I found the growth in Alethea’s character was a little slow but illustrated great progression away from her abusive life.

Apart from the traumatic events, I found the story slightly boring as it seemed to be set in mostly two scenes, her workplace and home. I wanted different settings at times and I also felt the secondary characters could have been much stronger.