Keren's review
Small Island: A Novel
by Andrea Levy
Keren's review
Small Island: A Novel by Andrea Levy
Keren's review
rating:
This book was a good read, but I don't feel like it lived up to its potential. The topic was great - the British reaction to a wave of Jamaican immigrants during WWII. Jamaica was a commonwealth country and its citizens were loyal to England, but the British thought of them as foreigners and were not welcoming. There were though-provoking comparisons between American racism and British racism. All of this was more interesting to me because I was traveling through England while reading it.
The narrative jumped around a lot, in an oder that bugged me. It was interesting to have several perspectives on the same events and characters, but it could have been done with better structure. The dramatic points were not as climactic as they could have been, and the only really satisfying plot twist happened in the last 5 pages.
The narrative jumped around a lot, in an oder that bugged me. It was interesting to have several perspectives on the same events and characters, but it could have been done with better structure. The dramatic points were not as climactic as they could have been, and the only really satisfying plot twist happened in the last 5 pages.
