A review by kimu
Sugar in the Blood: A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire by Andrea Stuart

2.0

I was really looking forward to this book after hearing the author on NPR. Good: the book is clearly incredibly well researched, the topic area has lot of potential for a fascinating non fiction story. Bad: the author's writing style is so incredibly dry that it left me yawning, the book is over burdened with detail, the angle the author starts with (following the perspective of a potential English relative) is off putting, and the audiobook narrator is grating. Just a complete miss for me, disappointing because in interviews the author seemed so fascinating!