Cambridge Audiobook (Unabridged)

" An intriguing blend of travel narrative, slave narrative, and courtly romance. Phillips uses the female imperial eye to show the hypocrisy and inhumanity of absentee landlords and the creolization of English plantation owners during the slavery era in the Caribbean. "

" A feverish tone and an unnerving atmosphere make it a vivid portrayal of the transAtlantic slave trade. "

" This was a painful read. The things school makes me read. :\ "

" I think this is the best of Caryl Phillips' novels, a brilliant story of the ambivalences and contradictions and hypocrisies in a slave-owning colonial society. "

" Earnest, earnest, earnest. "

" This book wasn't entirely easy to get through, so thank God it was short. The writing was undoubtedly good and I enjoyed learning about an era/world that I was not previously familiar with. But, Phillips seemed to do little to keep the reader interested and invested. "

" I wanted to like this book but I couldn't, I think because I couldn't shake the thought that the author was more interested in making a point than telling a story. It seemed almost that he tried too hard to put the reader into the time and place and the minds of the characters. "

" A feverish tone and an unnerving atmosphere make it a vivid portrayal of the transAtlantic slave trade. "