#76 Hum If You Don't Know the Words

Hum If You Don't Know the Words
By Bianca Marais

This novel started off great! I thought it was going to be my first 5/5 of five rating.

The story of a young white South African girl, Robin, and her black Xhosa care giver, Beauty. The two characters both suffer immense loss and grief, but they bring love and joy to one another. It starts off as such a great story. But.......

Unbelievably, at p. 291 the novel totally changes. All of a sudden, Robin, the 10-year old white girl becomes a detective and starts doing all these really silly and totally unbelievable things to try and help. The rest of the book becomes sort of like a detective novel, but it just doesn't work with the rest of the book and for me it was totally ruined.

Rating: 3/5
Recommendation: The first part is a lovely read......and the end is, well, stupid.