Review: What's Up With the Dup?
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 11, 2013
That's probably a bad title for a review, but I've just spent some time listening to some Bob Marley and the Wailers do their "Duppy Conquerer" piece, and it got me in the mood, mon. Anyway, this was a good read: good clear dialogue and verbiage (I mean, when was the last time we all heard the word, "penury?"), nice pacing, with fleshed out characters and solid plot development. Even some unforced, natural humor. The author obviously knows her islands and their ways well enough to translate them to the reader in a way that doesn't pontificate about them, nor is a bit too pedantic. Just good clear description. I specifically liked Uncle Eustice, and could have used a bit more of him. I think he could have fit in anywhere in the story. Sort of as her spiritual guide, or mentor throughout it all. Like a lot of other folks who wrote reviews, I too wish that the author would have finished up with the Dup a bit more. One more chapter ought to do it. Maybe something with the Dup, Rachell, and Tillie all walking arm in arm onto the beach as the tropical sun falls into the Carribean while in the background you can hear the Marley singin..."Don't try to cold me up... So if you're a bull-bucker, let me tell you this, I'm a Duppy conquerer, conquerer"