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rosinasavino
Oct 12, 2020rosinasavino rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Ok, so I expected to be in awe of this book, and instead I felt let down. I would not say this is a terribly written book, or that I was bored etc. I would give it 3 stars. My issue was the number of people reading it and raving about it I think impacted on my judgement because I went in thinking this was going to be one of the best books I will read. The book takes us through the lives of a number of women in Britain. Mostly black women who have come from abusive relationships or experienced significant trauma. A number of women identify as LGBTIQ+ and we get to hear the point of view form a person identifying as non-binary. For me, I felt that as soon as I was involved in a story, we were on to the next one and I was forgetting about characters who would then pop up in later stores. I would have preferred say three stories instead of 12 (I think that’s the number). The writing style is quite different i.e. grammar is used differently and at times I enjoyed the unique writing style, and other times I was more focused on that than the story. Overall, not the worst book I have read, but I can’t give it the rave review so many others do.