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A review by vynexareads
Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson
emotional
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
It makes me so sad to know that I will never be able to experience this novel for the first time ever again.
A story about falling in love, but most importantly, about the Black experience in London written in second person in such a poetic way. It is unlike anything I have read and want more, wanting to reread it already.
Reading this story, highlighting lines and passages, needing to pause at times. Lines about love in ways that I cannot express, lines about being a Black man in London, being Ghanian, where he can have the freedom he cannot have at his current home. Because being a Black person in many places, there is no feeling of freedom.
Towards the last few chapters, the atmosphere of the novel changed. Feeling the emotions of the main character we are following was inevitable. The last chapter felt like a deep breath, things became a little lighter.
I expected only half of what the story actually is, I'm glad is was more than I imagined.
Caleb Azumah Nelson is definitely an auto buy author for me and I will every single novel that he gets published.
⭐️5 STARS⭐️
A story about falling in love, but most importantly, about the Black experience in London written in second person in such a poetic way. It is unlike anything I have read and want more, wanting to reread it already.
Reading this story, highlighting lines and passages, needing to pause at times. Lines about love in ways that I cannot express, lines about being a Black man in London, being Ghanian, where he can have the freedom he cannot have at his current home. Because being a Black person in many places, there is no feeling of freedom.
Towards the last few chapters, the atmosphere of the novel changed. Feeling the emotions of the main character we are following was inevitable. The last chapter felt like a deep breath, things became a little lighter.
I expected only half of what the story actually is, I'm glad is was more than I imagined.
Caleb Azumah Nelson is definitely an auto buy author for me and I will every single novel that he gets published.
⭐️5 STARS⭐️