Something about it just did not engage me. Toussaint's life and rebellion are also seen - as is what connects the two.Can either of the two, living in Haiti, hundreds of years apart, ever be free?I will say right away, that In Darkness is going to be a hard book for me to review. Two centuries ago, Toussaint led a slave rebellion to get the French out of Haiti.As Shorty grows weaker and weaker in the darkness her relives his life, leading up to the bullet wound that brought him to the hospital.

He also has a link with Toussaint L'Ouverture. A twin sister who has the other half of his soul, someone he is linked with forever.His long-lost twin is not the only one Shorty is linked with, though. Drawn to the gangsters that rule his are, he has also become a part of it.He has seen his father killed and his twin sister taken away. Raised in the slum of Site Soleil Shorty has seen more violence in his short life than most of us will ever see. There for a shooting wound, Shorty is now thirsty, hungry, scared, and alone in the darkness. Two: there is no two.'After the Haitian earthquake of 2004, teenage 'Shorty' is trapped beneath the rubble of a hospital.

'In darkness I count my blessings like Manman taught me.

In Darkness by Nick Lake