http://www.amazon.com/The-Salt-Roads-Nalo-Hopkinson-ebook/product-reviews/B00QN352S8/ref=cm_cr_dp_qt_hist_one?ie=UTF8&filterBy=addOneStar&showViewpoints=0

This novel made no sense at all to me. I was interested in reading it because it was about slavery in the Caribbean (so I thought), but the real story of that horror was demeaned by the author's amateur attempts at trying to imbue her novel with "kewl", and by her bringing "magic" into it.

I know that superstition was (and is) a part of primitive people's lives, and that Victorians believed in spirits, but having characters conjure up a vision from a chamber pot full of urine and menstrual fluid seemed to me to be not only gross, but to cheapen the story being told about the conditions under which slaves were forced to live, and turning the whole thing into a gaudy circus. And that bit wasn't even in the Caribbean, it was in Paris!

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I found that opening paragraph interesting in characterizing the reviewer as someone who would be interested in a novel about slavery. The thing that's interesting is that the book isn't really about slavery, a portion of it just takes place in that setting. I haven't read it but that second paragraph... lol.

The reviewer goes on to say they stopped at page 50 something in a 4 hundred page book because they just didn't know what was going on.

Not sure why i'm finding this type of thing so fascinating, but it is.


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