She Would Be King: A Novel

from kcshankd

This one took some time to develop - it seemed like it took forever to get going. Africa diaspora experience, complete with more sentient ghosts, etc. I spent two weeks reading the first 180 pages and one day the last 120. Would have made a heck of a comic book.

from erikasolberg770

Great premise and intriguing characters. The writing was a little weak in some places. It illuminated some history I did not know anything about. The slipstream nature worked -- the combination of realism and fantasy was well done and appropriate.

from maryreinert

This was a start but was well worth the effort to finish it. Beginning in the bush country in a place in Africa that would become Liberia, Gbessa is born with a curse. She is isolated from her people and eventually sent away. She is bitten by a poisonous snake but does not die. The beginning chap...

from brontella

stunning. use of third person and the wind as narrator allows the story to open up wide.