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A review by natyweiss
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton
3.0
-ARC provided by publisher in exchange for honest review. Thank you Simon and Schuster and Netgalley-
Sunny Shelton is a young journalist that is trying to reconstruct the true story of the 60's afro punk diva Opal and her music partner Nev, who gained notoriety due to a violent night in which Sunny's father (the band's drummer) was brutally killed. She interviews all the living members of the band and other interesting characters, and in doing so, she uncovers a dark little secret about that tragic night of Rivington Showcase.
The book is very similar to Daisy Jones and the Six. It is also structured as an oral reccount of the things that happened but this book also have a lot of foot notes and editor notes. In my opinion, that wasn't a good idea. I'm not very fond of footnotes, and when you are engaged in the narrative, these notes can be extremely disruptive. At one point, I started to skiping them. I understand that is a fiction book that reads as a non fictional piece, but it is still fiction and I want it to feel like it. I think that the characters pay the price of it all. They are interesting, at least most of them, but they are interrupted and this prevents the reader from engaging with them in a more emotional level.
There is no doubt that is a great debut novel though. Dawnie Walton knows how to write indeed.
I thought that I was going to love it. But sadly I didn't.
Sunny Shelton is a young journalist that is trying to reconstruct the true story of the 60's afro punk diva Opal and her music partner Nev, who gained notoriety due to a violent night in which Sunny's father (the band's drummer) was brutally killed. She interviews all the living members of the band and other interesting characters, and in doing so, she uncovers a dark little secret about that tragic night of Rivington Showcase.
The book is very similar to Daisy Jones and the Six. It is also structured as an oral reccount of the things that happened but this book also have a lot of foot notes and editor notes. In my opinion, that wasn't a good idea. I'm not very fond of footnotes, and when you are engaged in the narrative, these notes can be extremely disruptive. At one point, I started to skiping them. I understand that is a fiction book that reads as a non fictional piece, but it is still fiction and I want it to feel like it. I think that the characters pay the price of it all. They are interesting, at least most of them, but they are interrupted and this prevents the reader from engaging with them in a more emotional level.
There is no doubt that is a great debut novel though. Dawnie Walton knows how to write indeed.
I thought that I was going to love it. But sadly I didn't.