C L’s Reviews > Native Son > Status Update

“He was eager, tremendously excited…what a fool she was…how Mary had acted. Carrying on that way! Hell, she made me do it! I couldn't help it! She should've known better! She should've left me alone, Goddammit! He did not feel sorry for Mary; she was not real to him, not a human being; he had not known her long or well enough for that. He felt that his murder of her was more than amply justified…”
Accident?

I’m coming to the close of part one of this book, after he commits murder, and currently I would rate it at one or two stars. I say this because I have already almost made this a DNF book, but I gave it another chance after a week or two. The murder, in my opinion, was not accidental. He had so many options besides smothering the girl with a pillow. It feels racist to continue reading, but I’ll push through.