camiloluna4e62

The last fifty pages of this book was hugely frustrating reading. I just wanted the book to end. The idea for the story is a good one but there wasn't enough suspense or building of the plot. A mysterious, white man rents a basement for the summer from a black man in Easthamptons. He stays in the basement in a cage, a self-imposed prisoner, as punishement for his many "crimes," which he does not consider crimes. He knows secrets about governments, the wealthy and world systems - yet, to me, he never disclosed anything that was worthy of being called "top secret." He's afraid of the dark though and is upset when he's placed in "solitary" by the black home owner, who's now his "warden." The characters were weak; I felt no sympathy or any kind of attachement or emotion for anyone in the story. I was reading and thinking about what I could read next; I was that bored. My friends keep talking about the genius of Walter Mosley's work. I don't get it. The Tempest Tales was better than this one, but still. I'm going to try one more of his books.

2022-11-14 16:09