Naked, honest, true and poetic. The words that comes to mind after having read this book. Somewhere deep down between the lines there’s an incredibly small piece of inspiration and hope that you get a sense of, but mostly it’s a raw depiction of life. Social classes, hard workers, ethnicities, friendships - life. Raw, raw life. It’s a good book, but I’m a bit too sensitive to be able to ever read it again, I think. Still, a good book that I can recommend.

I get why this book has reached its level of importance and respect, because it is important. It’s important to read and learn about books who are written about the colonisation of Africa from the Africans point of view - and in that way it is a good book, but for me (book/story/writing way) it’s not my favourite.

In my opinion it’s not the best book writing wise, too slow and too repetitive, the perspective of it being told in third person when the protagonist is such a troubled and difficult soul and we never get to see his thoughts from his perspective is also hard.

It’s not a book for me personally, but an incredible important book for culture. It’s important to have stories told from all perspectives, and for that reason I respect it.

DNF at 30%. The first book was amazing with great

Better than book no.4 in the series, 3.5 grade.