Nnedi’s Reviews > A Brief History of Seven Killings > Status Update

Um...what's going on? What's the plot? Who knows. Strong strong voices. I enjoy that. Nina Burgess, I don't enjoy her at all, but she's real (and the only name that sticks to my brain). Violent, crass, corrupt, ok, I've seen this "Jamaica" plenty of time sin literature. I know the patois, so I'm not wowed by that part of it. I just NEED a plot and there is none. So...will I finish? Not quickly.

There's a lot of "look how Jamaican I am" in this and as someone who's been to Jamaica and knows the slang quite well...nothing new or exotic to me. The information he's conveying is amazing, but I'm not enjoying the way the story is told, not so far. I'm kinda bored. The characters talk too dang much and not enough happens as a narrative. I'm not enchanted yet at all by this. Will keep going, though.