Everett's retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn gives a fascinating but darker look at the story from Jim's perspective. As a character, James provides a look into an extremely intelligent and insightful man forced to play to white people's expectations of him. I am extremely grateful I picked up the audiobook because the narrator does an amazing job as James code switches between his personal and his slave diction. The first half of the book stays true to Twain's version but diverges once James and Huck separate, which didn't bother me. However, the ending abruptly veered from the rest of the story in tone and pacing; else I likely would have given James five stars.