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A review by alexcarbonneau
Black Water Rising by Attica Locke
4.0
Attica Locke's place is right up there, on top of all of the lists and top-tens and listings of our generation's most important writers and novelists.
Not only does the woman writes great on-the-edge-of-your-seat crime and mystery novels, but she wraps it up in a social portrayal of our racist, mysogynist world in an unfortunatly too close to reality manner. Which is what is actually the most amazing an important part of her novels, the part you should be looking forward to when you pick her books up from the shelf.
Black Water Rising is no exception to the rule.
Being her debut novel, it actually defines what I'd like to call the Locke genre, since literally no one does it quite like her. Not even Greg Iles who could be mentionned in the same category as Locke.
A mystery, crime novel that sets appart from the classic "whodunnit" novels and a novel that should be the benchmark of what the Big5 publishers look for in a crime novel.
Not only does the woman writes great on-the-edge-of-your-seat crime and mystery novels, but she wraps it up in a social portrayal of our racist, mysogynist world in an unfortunatly too close to reality manner. Which is what is actually the most amazing an important part of her novels, the part you should be looking forward to when you pick her books up from the shelf.
Black Water Rising is no exception to the rule.
Being her debut novel, it actually defines what I'd like to call the Locke genre, since literally no one does it quite like her. Not even Greg Iles who could be mentionned in the same category as Locke.
A mystery, crime novel that sets appart from the classic "whodunnit" novels and a novel that should be the benchmark of what the Big5 publishers look for in a crime novel.