A review by voelve
The Book Of Echoes by Rosanna Amaka

dark emotional reflective medium-paced
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

I've never seen her do that before. I mean, look deep into her eyes to see herself inside.

This book is horrifying. Not the writing, but the subject material. The topic of inter-generational trauma is something I'm trying to learn how to - understand is the wrong word, but at least be aware of as a white person. I think I'll need to digest this one for a little while before I pick up another book on the subject, though; I had to put it down a couple of times because there were some deeply troubling passages.

The only thing I didn't find appealing (if you can use that word about an unsettling book such as this) was the choice of the narrator. I really liked the choice of using a poor slave's spirit as an omniscient narrator; it was particularly spellbinding as the intro to the book, but about halfway through (and more so towards the end of the book), I felt that it removed focus from the stories of the two protagonists.


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