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nicole_reads_everything 's review for:
A Long Way Gone
by Ishmael Beah
Around the World Reading Challenge: SIERRA LEONE
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3.5 rounded up
I deeply admire the author and his courage, and I appreciated this first hand account of his perspective during the civil war in Sierra Leone. Something about this book felt unfinished, however, and not just because it just sort of ends without any sense of conclusion. I can appreciate that the somewhat non-linear, vignette-style storytelling is likely due to both his young age at the time of many of these events and the trauma he sustained, but while I felt sometimes it was quite effective, others it was unclear and felt a little more like a first draft than a cohesive narrative. Glad to have read it, but it didn't hit quite as deeply as I'd expected.
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3.5 rounded up
I deeply admire the author and his courage, and I appreciated this first hand account of his perspective during the civil war in Sierra Leone. Something about this book felt unfinished, however, and not just because it just sort of ends without any sense of conclusion. I can appreciate that the somewhat non-linear, vignette-style storytelling is likely due to both his young age at the time of many of these events and the trauma he sustained, but while I felt sometimes it was quite effective, others it was unclear and felt a little more like a first draft than a cohesive narrative. Glad to have read it, but it didn't hit quite as deeply as I'd expected.