July 12, 2022
Black Cake by Charmaine Williamson
When their mother dies suddenly, siblings Byron and Benny meet after many years. Their mother left them her secret black cake recipe and an eight-hour audio recording about her life before she met their father. With the help of their mother's lawyer, Byron and Benny try to make sense of what their mother is telling them.
I like the first 2/3 of the book, then it lost me. Too many new characters were introduced in the last third. The two main characters irritated me - they were whiny, self-centered, and immature. The author also tried to address every social issue she could think of, which got boring. This book needed a good editor to whack out at least 100 pages and improve the narrative. Disappointing.
Traditional Caribbean black cake, a dense fruitcake-type of spice cake - every Trinidadian family seems to have their own recipe - some look more like chocolate cake than fruitcake
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