Karin's Reviews > Hand Me Down World

The writing is very strong, but the story was not too my taste at this point.

The blurb gives you an enticing description that I won't rehash per se. Suffice it to say a beautiful African woman who works in a hotel (you find this out almost right away, so this is no spoiler even though the blurb doesn't tell you this) is seduced by a guest, gets pregnant, and he takes her baby (steals it, but makes sure the stealing is legal since she doesn't know his first language). This is the story of her trying to see her child, and is primarily told by others, although the blurb is deceptive, since not every single person telling the story was a strangers. However, the idea of how reliable each narrator is is an integral part of this tale, and it's great to bear this in mind while reading it.

It was Jones' stellar writing that kept me reading this even though I can't say that I loved the story itself.