Ife, a talented artist, is part of the Urban Achievers program at Nithercott School, a prestigious, and expensive, private school that comes with its own urban legend: the Changing Man. Ife doesn’t want to be at Nithercott, seeing as she doesn’t really fit in with many of her wealthy classmates; she is even made to wear a different uniform due to her scholarship and status as an Urban Achiever. Thankfully she has Malika, the only other Black student in her class, by her side to navigate Nithercott School, but when Malika starts acting strange Ife wonders if maybe the rumors she has heard about the Changing Man are true. Ife soon finds an ally in Ben, a student who strongly believes that the Changing Man exists. Ben even believes that the Changing Man is responsible for the disappearance of his brother Leon. Soon Ife and Ben, along with their friend Bijal, find themselves working together to uncover the truth about the Changing Man and solve the mystery of Leon’s disappearance before the Changing Man finds his next victim.
The Changing Man was a novel I struggled with a little. I didn’t feel as though I could connect with the characters; so many of them were childish and petty, and frankly annoying at times. They didn’t act how I would expect privileged kids to, which made it hard to really care about anything that was happening to them. The narrative overall fell a little flat and didn’t deliver the way I had hoped it would based on the synopsis and prologue. It took too long to get into the meat of the story, which led to me losing interest in the narrative before the Changing Man really began to play a part in the story. I feel as though there is a great story here, it just was executed poorly.
The Changing Man was a novel I struggled with a little. I didn’t feel as though I could connect with the characters; so many of them were childish and petty, and frankly annoying at times. They didn’t act how I would expect privileged kids to, which made it hard to really care about anything that was happening to them. The narrative overall fell a little flat and didn’t deliver the way I had hoped it would based on the synopsis and prologue. It took too long to get into the meat of the story, which led to me losing interest in the narrative before the Changing Man really began to play a part in the story. I feel as though there is a great story here, it just was executed poorly.