Barry Unsworth - Sacred Hunger Review

Sacred Hunger

By Barry Unsworth

The Plot:

This was a historical tale of William and Eramus Kemp. William is the father, who has a ship built specifically for the slave trade. The ship sets sail with a group of seafaring men, and a doctor who is also William's nephew. This causes much strife among the crew, as his nephew, Paris, is not a fellow voyager. Meanwhile, William's son Eramus is falling in love, and hoping to marry.

My Opinion:

This book was given to me amongst many other books, and essentially the next one in my pile, to read. If I had picked this one up at a store, I wouldn't have bought it. It wasn't really all that interesting. The beginning was slow, the middle (the part written about the ship's journey and the slave trade), was interesting, and then the end seemed unbelievable and was a little boring. It does have a strange twist to it, when the ship never makes it back from the slave trading, but it didn't seem possible. I wouldn't recommend this book.