Helpful Score: 3
The concept for the story is great, I just didn't care for the execution (of the story).
This book sounds like it should be heart-wrenching and touching. I am sad to say it is not. With a topic as charged as slavery, I expected to run through a whole range of emotions by the time I finished this book- anguish, pity, sadness, love, hate- but the only emotion I felt was disappointment. This book TELLS a story but it does not SHOW you one.
The characters weren't developed enough to allow the reader to sympathize. The majority of the time, slavery is depicted as what I would refer to as 'slavery-light'. When an injustice does occur, you want to put yourself in the slave's shoes- become outraged or disheartened or defeated- but can't because the majority of the time the incident is just barely acknowledged by the author or the characters themselves.
This book sounds like it should be heart-wrenching and touching. I am sad to say it is not. With a topic as charged as slavery, I expected to run through a whole range of emotions by the time I finished this book- anguish, pity, sadness, love, hate- but the only emotion I felt was disappointment. This book TELLS a story but it does not SHOW you one.
The characters weren't developed enough to allow the reader to sympathize. The majority of the time, slavery is depicted as what I would refer to as 'slavery-light'. When an injustice does occur, you want to put yourself in the slave's shoes- become outraged or disheartened or defeated- but can't because the majority of the time the incident is just barely acknowledged by the author or the characters themselves.
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