chakgilbert 's review for:

Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour

DID NOT FINISH: 44%

---

My issue with the book are two things. One Daron does not or rather he is not a likable character. He irritated me and it could be because he’s a young person trying to navigate the world and I’ve already been through that. The book is supposed to be satire, however, it doesn’t read like a satire. It wasn’t funny to me. It seemed too realistic, and it made me wonder who the author was writing to. Was he writing to Black people or was he writing with the white gaze in mind. And I think that matters, because when you’re reading a book dealing with micro aggressions at work and some of the stuff was over the top but a lot of it was things people in the corporate world deal with or have dealt with. So I wasn’t understanding where satire of the book came in. I tried to push through and read the whole book, but I got to through chapter 15 and just couldn’t continue reading. This book didn’t compel me to pick it up. I did not want to know what happened. It felt very wolf of Wall Street to me so I felt like I could kind of determine where the story was going. And after reading some other reviews, and getting an idea of the ending, it may not be very satisfying, especially to black readers, and not knowing the purpose of the story, I decided that I didn’t want to finish the book. However, I am interested in reading more from the author. I enjoyed the writing style of the book And I felt like the author does have something to say. I just did not enjoy this book maybe because it was too close to home. So I’m not sure if I would ever come back to this book or if it’s a ever adaptation if I would watch something like this, it just did it interest me to continue to read essentially light trauma.