author: Danielle Prescod
name: Kim
average rating: 3.68
book published: 2025
rating: 4
read at: 2025/03/06
date added: 2025/03/06
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review:
A satisfying read marred by the need for a happy ending (kinda’)
It is a sign of where we are still at in this racist and intolerant world that the fact of having the book’s subject being a rich man who is black makes it more interesting. But so be it, and the author does a great job of giving us a plausible glimpse into an utterly dysfunctional and unhappy family. The story stretches credulity at times, but it’s an entertaining and good yarn, sadly marred by the author’s (or perhaps the publisher’s) need to add a ‘meaningful’ epilogue after what would otherwise have been a perfect ending, making the point everyone has a price…
