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3.71 AVERAGE
3.71 AVERAGE
dark
funny
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
A really vivid picture of Lagos, so interesting and loved the characters!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Gore, Sexual violence, Mass/school shootings, Murder
Moderate: Cancer, Miscarriage
Minor: Confinement, Colonisation
adventurous
dark
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
adventurous
dark
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
When is a welcome not really a welcome? When it's a welcome from Lagos, a city captured here as a heaving, corrupt, conflicted beast locked in combat with it's inhabitants, who themselves are fighting an internal battle between morality and opportunity.
I felt the pace was a bit off and a couple of the characters were superfluous but otherwise it was an engaging and vibrant read about family (the kind you make for yourself) and human nature.
3.5/4
I felt the pace was a bit off and a couple of the characters were superfluous but otherwise it was an engaging and vibrant read about family (the kind you make for yourself) and human nature.
3.5/4
adventurous
funny
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Welcome to Lagos centers around a group of good-natured runaways. Chike and Yemi desert the army after being ordered to gun down a group of innocent civilians. On their journey to Lagos, they take in more misfits, banding together to become a tight-knit family despite their differences.
With beautiful prose, Onuzo vividly describes her home country with both love and criticism. She paints a picture of the poverty and corruption of modern Nigeria as well as the beauty and resiliency of Lagos and the inhabitants who ultimately want to work toward a better future.
With beautiful prose, Onuzo vividly describes her home country with both love and criticism. She paints a picture of the poverty and corruption of modern Nigeria as well as the beauty and resiliency of Lagos and the inhabitants who ultimately want to work toward a better future.
Simply incredible. Onuzu has a wonderful, lyrical style and an ability to draw these interesting, fleshed out characters. Lagos itself becomes perhaps the most important character of all: you get a real feel for the pride and the frustration that the author feels about her hometown. The only thing I could criticize the book for is a rushed ending, but I loved the book so much I wasn't even bothered by that.
June 2018 -- DNF'd. Just -- not feeling it. Might try again sometime, but TBR is calling to me.