Book Review: A Broken People's Playlist
A Broken People's Playlist is an exceptional collection of 12 wonderful short stories, inspired by some good, good music.
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The stories are written in first and second person POV of which, I enjoyed because it's been a while I read something beautiful from these perspective of POV.
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Rather than the regular writing in chapters, the different stories are named after a track list that inspired the creativity of each story.
With each music giving you a hint on what to expect in every story.
These wonderful stories cut across a wide range of themes from family to love, marriage, misdeed, forgiveness, anger, health, loss, abuse, rape, vindication and life's ups and down.
Each characters were really relatable and connectable. You could feel thier various emotions and sympathize with them.
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There is something about short stories that made me not to be a big fan of it, which is how it leaves me with unsettled questions at the end.
But reading Manchester Happened and this book felt different.
I laughed (big time), felt boken, sad, happy and remorseful at different point.
Another beautiful thing about this book was how the characters were interconnected.
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Garricks is such a good storyteller that I can't stop appreciating his works and talking about how his books should be read if you want to have a nice experience when it comes to African literature.
His style of writing (Father lord 🙌, I love it) is phenomenal.
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It was hard picking a favourite story because of how good each of them are.
•Lost Stars and In The City, left me broken and sad.
•I Put A Spell on You, left me wanting more and I can't just imagine, how it would all end.
•Hurt, left me thoughtful and questioning myself on what might have been my own decision.
•Song For Someone, Ukela made me screamed and laughed hard.
Girl,her attitude was the real deal.
•River, left me touched and felt what true friendship is.
•Desperado, was the most sensitive story to me because at some point it reminded me of an incident.
•You Suppose Know, 😥❤❤this particular story left me very emotional to the core.
The author's note made me learnt why finding something that motivates and inspires you is very necessary.
As a Garricks stan, I highly recommend you read his book and anticipate his second novel 🤗.
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PS: Still wondering what you waiting for, before read his debut (Tomorrow Died Yesterday).