A review by lizdesole
Song of the Shank by Jeffery Renard Allen

1.0

Oh, how I wish I could've finished this. I am the wrong person for this book though. It's a shame because the story sounds so fascinating. Unfortunately (for me at least) the story is obscured by very dense flowery prose. I personally am not a big fan of poetry and this book was almost 600 pages of over-elaborate, suffocating poetic writing with an awkward cadence. I only made it about 100 pages in before I decided that I love to read too much to suffer through this one. But, if you're a poetry fan, go for it