A review by gbatts
This Brutal House by Niven Govinden

2.0

The sentences are stunningly written, which makes for great extracts in reviews. The struggle is that the writing on a whole is not captivating enough to make up for the lack of plot. It doesn’t help that Govinder has set large parts of the novel from an outsider’s perspective, which effectively is the perspective of the most boring character who is almost entirely removed from the central action in the story.

I’m not entirely sure that this novel would appeal to anyone who hadn’t seen Paris Is Burning and the question then is why anyone would be interested in a story that is so much less in every way.