Yrsa is doing a PHD at Cambridge on “… how Afropessimism is shaping black women’s discourses on their liberation”. As I got into this book the thought in the back of my mind was that I was never going to be able to review it; that is until the killing started.
Yrsa kills bad men who need killing. She doesn’t think much about what she’s done apart from making sure she doesn’t get caught. She hooks up with men she is attracted to but hates: “Why can’t she just shag in peace? Why do men have to speak?” Although Honey is billed as ‘funny’, and that little quote is funny, Yrsa is just generally too unlikeable, and that is how I think she was meant to be read.
Yrsa’s interactions with her parents and especially her Caribbean grandmother have influenced her way of thinking as well as, of course, her studies into her chosen PHD subject. She has a genuine need to protest on behalf of black women, which is right, but she has opened the box in which her basic instincts have been hiding and now she doesn’t want to put the lid back on.
Creepy but compelling
Published by Harper Collins
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