Unabridged Audiobook
When you're a Black girl, you are inhabiting a cruel riddle. Your beauty is denied but replicated. Your sexuality is controlled but desired. You take up too much space, but if you're small, you're ripped apart. You can always depend on whiteness to destroy a threat... Beginnings and Endings always have the same endings depending on how you tell it. In this story, a young Black girl goes missing in the woods, but she isn't the first, nor last. Something or someone is watching. Liz, a Black woman, goes back home to a predominantly white town for her best friends wedding. She's hesitant because of the past, it she has no idea of what's to come. On the wedding day, her niece Caroline goes missing in those woods. It's just like dejavu, Liz notices the pattern, a Black girl goes missing during a party, in the summer. Keisha Woodson went missing, the only Black girl in school, was found dead with her chest open and her heart missing. Liz is a suspect, but everything points elsewhere, even to Chris, but.... As Liz digs to clear her name, she finds out the towns history and secret. Black girls have been going missing in those woods for years, but why? Y'all, this book had me on edge, but explains or puts in perspective why yt people are fearful or scared of Black progress and flourishing. The Jackal can be seen as what it is an animal or foolish people who think that getting rid of the Black race makes humanity better. The part of the book that stood out the most is Lucy's chapter. It shows how resilient, truthful, and how they have a fearful confrontational spirit. Talking about the man and the shadow. Doug and his father were warnings to stay out of woods. The shadow that doesn't obey the sun. The Jackal would take the shape of what people feared the most. Until Lucy, the Jackal was defeated. The Jackal is a book that needs to be read!!#Book7of2024 #Bookworm #Whatsnext
This was interesting and captures the social injustice of racism and the lack of interest in missing girls of color. The story begins with promise but transition’s into a science fiction novel which was disappointing.
I have read and listened to THOUSANDS of books in my life and without doubt this was the stupidest book I have ever read. It starts out mildly interesting and quickly went south and turned into ridiculousness. I will never listen to this author again.
Jackal is beautifully written, lyrical and haunting. I love that it crosses genres, from social justice to mystery/thriller to supernatural horror. This is a solid debut, and I look forward to more from Erin A. Adams.
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