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A review by bunnipdf
White Smoke by Tiffany D. Jackson
adventurous
dark
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.75
This book is in divine form as an audiobook. Chilling descriptions, creepy “creaks,” and haunting voices bring this horror novel to life, even when sharing stories of the dead.
White Smoke delivers increasing fascination and disturbance with every chapter, as two horror stories unfold. The first a chilling journey that follows an anxious Mari and her fractured, blended, family moving into an infamous home within an infamous town. Mari is suspicious from the very beginning, and so an intimate connection with her fears and suspicions forms easily. Jackson beautifully pulls in her audience through her young, black, and misunderstood heroine. Every sleepless night Mari endures in her new home will have you checking the dark corners of your own.
The second story White Smoke shares with us is equally the stuff of nightmares, as readers witness the horrors of what happens to a black community that is left to die by its leaders and lawmakers.
Both mystery and horror soar in this novel. The cast of characters are so strong, and readers will easily find the heroes and villains. But the significance of the story’s themes on gentrification, race, class, and criminalization are not done justice by such simple explanations that Jackson provides by the end of the novel. Mari’s story is tied up neatly enough, but I was left unsatisfied by her final chapters.
White Smoke delivers increasing fascination and disturbance with every chapter, as two horror stories unfold. The first a chilling journey that follows an anxious Mari and her fractured, blended, family moving into an infamous home within an infamous town. Mari is suspicious from the very beginning, and so an intimate connection with her fears and suspicions forms easily. Jackson beautifully pulls in her audience through her young, black, and misunderstood heroine. Every sleepless night Mari endures in her new home will have you checking the dark corners of your own.
The second story White Smoke shares with us is equally the stuff of nightmares, as readers witness the horrors of what happens to a black community that is left to die by its leaders and lawmakers.
Both mystery and horror soar in this novel. The cast of characters are so strong, and readers will easily find the heroes and villains. But the significance of the story’s themes on gentrification, race, class, and criminalization are not done justice by such simple explanations that Jackson provides by the end of the novel. Mari’s story is tied up neatly enough, but I was left unsatisfied by her final chapters.