Alexandra Black’s Reviews > The Determined > Status Update

tbh I had way more appreciation for this book before Anne and Rackham were introduced because cheap romance and semi-implied/explicit smut ruined the flow. moreover, initially the format was following the narrator within the story and switching between the two, whereas after 50% mark it blended both women together & there's no clear distinction between who's telling it anymore, eliminating the impact of unreliability

it had to ruin the prose with heavy handed, character as a mouthpiece, white guilt/saviour complex spiel that uses all the right buzzwords with tldr "slavery is bad" in a very annoying american-centric manner. ugh.