Black Buck

Being in the customer service industry there were so many things that he spoke about that I understood 100%! I loved this book until it got to the last 15-20% especially the last chapter. I hated the twist ending and wished the author did something else with the ending. And while I hated Clyde and didn't agree with what they did to him, he got off too east and didn't get what he deserved

This didn't work for me. I hated the asides to the reader, the pacing was all over the place, the dialogue was messy, and the characters were caricatures. This book became steadily more and more absurd as the story continues, and the ending feels so rushed and nonsensical compared to the rest of the book. It's like it totally switched genres in the last thirty pages.

Black Buck is creative and thought-provoking. Funny and dark. I enjoyed it.

Mild spoiler

Yes, there are flaws here, pointed out very well by other reviewers, regarding how the few women are written; I completely agree with those observations. By the end of the book, we know what Soraya smells like. The main character's mom is basically fridged.

This being said, I still really enjoyed this book. Sometimes, it was funny, but most of the time, I was just staring in horror at the page, at all the crap through which he goes, at what he briefly becomes, and his dark ending. Parts of it are so real. The ending though...is almost a little too optimistic, in a strange way.

Still, a fun time was had by all reading this, with a fine observation of how non-white people are treated. About how white people can be so brutally tone deaf, ignorant, or just plain evil, with serious cognitive dissonance. Despite how wild some of the end is, I don't think it is unrealistic in its assessment of workplace politics, systemic racism, and white retaliation. The only thing at which I might have quirked an eyebrow in the very end was where he finds his freedom. But that would be too much of a spoiler.

Also, I'm a sucker for most anything with found family.

Review to come.