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A review by destdest
Libertie by Kaitlyn Greenidge
Did not finish book. Stopped at 32%.
dnf @ 107 pages/ 32%
This story wasn’t suited for me, and I love character-driven stories.
Over 100 pages passed, and we were still stuck in Libertie’s DRY, wide-eyed perspective as a child, working with her ‘high yellow able to pass’ doctor mother.
Libertie realizes the robotic sterileness of her mother and her difficulty with connecting to people. She learns her mother isn’t perfect.
Her mother had a way of helping former enslaved and descendants of the enslaved escape by putting them in temporary coma-like states. That is beyond interesting and startling terrifying, but the execution was too boring.
I didn’t even meet the Haitian man Libertie would marry because we were stuck with the child version of her. Nothing in the narrative voice was endearing to me despite the spotlight on intelligent Black women.
I gave this 100 pages to get better, but I don’t have 100 more to give.
This story wasn’t suited for me, and I love character-driven stories.
Over 100 pages passed, and we were still stuck in Libertie’s DRY, wide-eyed perspective as a child, working with her ‘high yellow able to pass’ doctor mother.
Libertie realizes the robotic sterileness of her mother and her difficulty with connecting to people. She learns her mother isn’t perfect.
Her mother had a way of helping former enslaved and descendants of the enslaved escape by putting them in temporary coma-like states. That is beyond interesting and startling terrifying, but the execution was too boring.
I didn’t even meet the Haitian man Libertie would marry because we were stuck with the child version of her. Nothing in the narrative voice was endearing to me despite the spotlight on intelligent Black women.
I gave this 100 pages to get better, but I don’t have 100 more to give.