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4.18 AVERAGE
4.18 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Content Warnings
Graphic: Domestic abuse
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
A beautiful, heartbreaking novel about love, grace, and belief in the face of rigid traditionalism and abuse.
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
challenging
dark
emotional
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
The book has an emotional weight of the narrative. Her descriptions are vivid without being sentimental and we can feel the tension, fear, and gradual awakening of a teenage girl trapped in a repressive household. The book comes into the concepts of religion and freedom, postcolonial nigeria and hope in the future. The path is slow, however, a bit too slow to be able to be completely immerged in this.
emotional
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Absolutely loved reading It. Wonderful reminder how a book can take you around the world and into peoples homes, heads and hearts.
Portrays a character who acts rather passive and has things happen to her, but with a very rich mind, and I enjoyed the contrast, and her feelings towards the people that acted very different than her
Also LOVED that spicy energy between her and the priest, this book has got me craving again
Some lines I don’t want to forget:
p. 71
Portrays a character who acts rather passive and has things happen to her, but with a very rich mind, and I enjoyed the contrast, and her feelings towards the people that acted very different than her
Also LOVED that spicy energy between her and the priest, this book has got me craving again
Some lines I don’t want to forget:
p. 71
Her laughter floated upstairs into the living room, where I sat reading.
…
She walked fast, like one who knew just where she was going and what she was going to do there. And she spoke the way she walked, as if to get as many words out of her mouth as she could in the shortest time.
p. 226
He laughed and said he believed they could jump higher than they thought they could. And that they had just proved him right.
It was what Aunty Ifeoma did to my cousins, I realized then, setting higher and higher jumps for them in the way she talked to them, in what she expected of them. She did it all the time believing they would scale the rod. And they did. It was different for Jaja and me. We did not scale the rod because we believed we could, we scaled it because we were terrified that we couldn't.
p. 276
I wished that I could think about something, anything, so that I would no longer feel.
Strong character development:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes