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A review by librariandest
Crow by Barbara Wright
3.0
I'm 40% done with this book and so far there is zero plot. The same thing keeps happening over and over again. Well-meaning Moses gets in trouble and his too-perfect dad has all the right things to say. Boo Nanny says something wise and folksy. Rinse and repeat.
The book is well-written and the historical setting is intriguing (particularly for readers who know that Jim Crow and segregation are coming), but it's taking so long to get to the, you know, story that I'm losing interest and feeling exasperated.
UPDATE
I finally finished and I will say that the final third of the book is much more gripping than the rest of it. I'm giving it three stars because it's not a bad book. Still, I can't get behind it. It's overly didactic. It takes too long to get interesting. And I would rather read an interesting nonfiction book about the 1898 Wilmington coup d'etat.
The book is well-written and the historical setting is intriguing (particularly for readers who know that Jim Crow and segregation are coming), but it's taking so long to get to the, you know, story that I'm losing interest and feeling exasperated.
UPDATE
I finally finished and I will say that the final third of the book is much more gripping than the rest of it. I'm giving it three stars because it's not a bad book. Still, I can't get behind it. It's overly didactic. It takes too long to get interesting. And I would rather read an interesting nonfiction book about the 1898 Wilmington coup d'etat.