i’m so disappointed.


but this just didn’t work for me for so many reasons that i can’t give it another rating. 

starting with how women in this are used as a rage reason instead of making them actual characters or even necessary - why include women if you only going to rape them or throw them aside for other reasons if it da story about a black slave? doesn’t he have enough reasons to be mad without the reader having to read through a horrible rape scene? (which by the way i hate anyways especially if they are written by men) 

i also don’t understand why this was necessary as a huckleberry finn retelling? 
this character of Jim wasn’t anything like the original version. 
it’s good to get an educated slave BUT why make it a retelling if you change the character completely? 
why not do a whole new story about a slave and tell what is done in this book without the connection to the other story?


i also didn’t like the writing style nor the differences how james spoke depending on who he was talking to or thought was listening - either he over simplified his speech or he talked in a way nobody would have talked outside of an overproduced theater production. 


i am not saying the story was bad or unnecessary - the opposite is true actually. 
i think this could have been an incredibly story but as it is there is just a lot of strange moments together that for me made no sense and could have been left out and made be book better. 


clearly i am in the minority here and that’s fine! i am very happy that so many people are getting something out of this book and especially with what is currently going on in the US it’s certainly necessary for people to remember that enslaving people and taking away their rights and voice is not the right way to go -ever. 


but this just wasn’t for me and i am pretty sure this author just doesn’t work for me personally.