Kiki’s Reviews > Cruel Destiny and The White Negress: Two Novels by Cléante Desgraves Valcin > Status Update

This book has me *screaming*: the mix ups and the reveals are unmatched! Which helps with the gloom when it reveals all the horrors of USA's first occupation of Haiti (and the similarities to the situation there now like damn).

Ok I dunno if "help" is the word but this ancestry reveal has me rolling. *rolls*

Yo. Valcin is not fucking around.

- I will marry Guy Vanel.

– I have diamonds…

– He has my word.

– I am white.

– Silence, now this is stupid.

– Well?

– Well, I dream of art, of beauty, of poetry, of youth.

– Two million dollars would amply supplement them. [...] I place them at your disposal.

– Thanks! Pick them up quickly, because I am going to trample them.

The bars in this book. 🤣🤣🤣

Life is not always beautiful, dear child, what if your father were to pass away? What if….

– Oh, I would simply die.

– Well. That's good. But you mustn't be hostile to the mother Monsieur Desvallons is going to give you.

GuFFAW. Di nun seh, That's proper daughter behaviour just don't be mean to your stepmum before yuh dutifully expire. 🤣😭

Everybody in Cruel Destiny is wilding.

Adeline you CAN'T be serious please stop this. 😂😭