Things Fall Apart

This has the narrative style of word-of-mouth story telling, which is totally fine in other formats. In book format, I find it jarring and annoying.

For instance, a single chapter might be seen as a single story. The next chapter will pick up another story at a slightly different point in time and will backtrack or fastforward to connect details to previous chapters. Sometimes, the recapping of particular chapters if verbatim. Sometimes you're just left thinking, “Oh, I guess this is a whole new story,” only to find out 10 pages later that the new “main character” is connected to the previous chapters' main character.

I will say that this book is pretty interesting in the sense of looking at colonialism from the side of the indigenous people. It reinforces the simple fact that indigenous people had absolutely no idea what they were agreeing to when agreements were made with European colonists. That is infuriating, of course.

So, anyway, this book is fine. I have zero temptation to read any others in the series.

This is for the “colonialism” requirement of the 2018 Book Riot Read Harder Challenge.