7/5/2023 0 Comments Pao by kerry young![]() ![]() The Sun Tzu quotes fit in with the story well but can get a little tiresome after a while. ![]() The changing face of the country was well portrayed albeit from just one point of view. The big redeeming feature of the book for me was the tie in with Jamaican history. The story as a whole was ok but apart from Pao I didn't really feel involved with any of the characters. Apart from that I just found it to be a bit flat. After a while I found this quite irritating and in certain parts of the book it was hard to follow. My first major bug-bear is the way Young writes using the accents quite often. I came to it full of hope and interest in it but found after a while that it just didn't grab me in the way I hoped. It's not a book I would have considered reading otherwise but the nomination caught my eye and the subject matter sounded interesting. I picked this up in my local Waterstones based on the fact that it had been shortlisted for the Costa first novel award. ![]()
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