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A review by gabsi77
Your Corner Dark by Desmond Hall
medium-paced
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
Your Corner Dark was an engrossing story of a Jamaican youth facing limited options and endless challenges as he seeks to overcome the circumstances of his birth. In Jamaica, you often get told that education is your way out. A way out of poverty and into middle class life, a way out of middle class life and into the uptown, or even a way out of Jamaica.
Frankie has worked hard to make his way out of his rural neighbourhood, pushing himself as his mother pushed and encouraged him. Now, he's finally making his way out and has got a scholarship to go to his dream university, and then in a second everything changes when his father gets shot. Now Frankie is on his own and has to make decisions no child should ever be faced with.
I was completely taken up with the story, however as a Jamaican there were things that were distinctly not Jamaican referenced in the ARC. For non-Jamaican readers it's not anything they'd likely notice.
Frankie has worked hard to make his way out of his rural neighbourhood, pushing himself as his mother pushed and encouraged him. Now, he's finally making his way out and has got a scholarship to go to his dream university, and then in a second everything changes when his father gets shot. Now Frankie is on his own and has to make decisions no child should ever be faced with.
I was completely taken up with the story, however as a Jamaican there were things that were distinctly not Jamaican referenced in the ARC. For non-Jamaican readers it's not anything they'd likely notice.