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A review by cafffine
God of Mercy by Okezie Nwoka
2.5
While I loved the prose, the setting, the intense interrogation of christianity and colonization / the violence of christianity, and the dedicated depiction of an uncolonized Igbo village and the sociology within, I was really held up by the character work.
The dialogue came off as very stiff at times which stripped a lot of otherwise strongly characterized figures of a distinct voice. Also, at around 2/3 of the way through the book, nearly all plot lines were dropped except the main one which let me down a bit, because I was invested in the other characters who I then never really got a conclusion on. I don’t regret reading this but I wanted a lot more out of it.
The dialogue came off as very stiff at times which stripped a lot of otherwise strongly characterized figures of a distinct voice. Also, at around 2/3 of the way through the book, nearly all plot lines were dropped except the main one which let me down a bit, because I was invested in the other characters who I then never really got a conclusion on. I don’t regret reading this but I wanted a lot more out of it.