A review by bookobsessedmommy
Little Rot by Akwaeke Emezi

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I have no clue how to talk about or rate this book. Rot is truly insidious. You make small concessions here and there, and then one day you look up and those inches have turned into a mile. This mix of thriller and horror elements with tenderness is disconcerting, but I just couldn't look away. The story starts pretty slow, but as things get rolling the momentum builds. The writing is striking but not overly flowery, and every charcter is complicated. I do wish we followed a smaller number of characters cause I sometimes struggled to keep them straight. I imagined a different ending, but the one Akwaeke Emezi chose is fitting.