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The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré

25 reviews

narbine's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Body shaming, Child abuse, Miscarriage, Alcohol, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Grief, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Sexism, Cursing, and Trafficking

bringmybooks's review

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

There is very little to be said about this book that hasn't already been said, so I'm going to let the quotes (&my review infographic things) speak for themselves:

✨ 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗡𝗚 ✨ B̷O̷R̷R̷O̷W̷ B̷Y̷P̷A̷S̷S̷

“Who knows what else tomorrow will bring? So, I nod my head yes, because it is true, the future is always working, always busy unfolding better things, and even if it doesn’t seem so sometimes, we have hope of it.”

“My mama say education will give me a voice. I want more than just a voice, Ms. Tia. I want a louding voice,” I say. “I want to enter a room and people will hear me even before I open my mouth to be speaking. I want to live in this life and help many people so that when I grow old and die, I will still be living through the people I am helping.”

“When you get up every day, I want you to remind yourself that tomorrow will be better than today. That you are a person of value. That you are important.”

“I want to tell her that God is not a cement building of stones and sand. That God is not for all that putting inside a house and locking Him there. I want her to know that the only way to know if a person find God and keep Him in their heart is to check how the person is treating other people, if he treats people like Jesus says--with love, patience, kindness, and forgiveness.”

(but seriously - this was a wonderful book, even as it was very hard to read (subject matter) at times. It was worth it. It feels necessary. I highly recommend it.)

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Physical abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Medical content, Bullying, Child abuse, Excrement, Grief, Animal death, Infidelity, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Slavery, Trafficking, Violence, and Death of parent

anniefwrites's review against another edition

emotional inspiring sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

I'm not sure if this one was for me. I think I prefer books that are a bit more subtextual rather than quite so direct like this one. While there were significant obstacles in Adunni's life, I felt that the outcomes could veer into the predictable. It was still super interesting to read a story set in a country that I don't normally read about, especially as Adunni was learning the "Nigeria facts" along the way with me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Trafficking, Domestic abuse, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Excrement, Infertility, and Sexism

Minor: Alcohol, Cursing, and Pregnancy

stardust_heidi's review

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad tense 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Grief, Sexual harassment, Trafficking, Child abuse, and Domestic abuse

janeleef's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Classism, Injury/Injury detail, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Infertility, Trafficking, Slavery, Rape, Pregnancy, Abortion, Miscarriage, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Torture, and Violence

ekmook's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Alcohol, Blood, Cursing, Death, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Grief, Infertility, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexism, Rape, Sexual content, Torture, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Excrement, Trafficking, Violence, Bullying, Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Infidelity, Sexual violence, and Slavery

writingcaia's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

“Not his-tory’, I say. ‘My own will be called her-story. Adunni’s story’.”

This is indeed Adduni’s tale, a girl who lost a mother and her mother’s hope for her to escape a bound life like hers through education, but with her mother dead and without money her father forces her out of school at 12 and when our story starts she’s 14 and her father desperate for money sells to be a third wife to an old “rich” village man.
She wants nothing more than to escape, to study, to have a louding voice but it will take a year of tragedy and misfortune, and also miracles and love to make her dream again.
This is Nigeria, a country were women are the most hardworking and the least considered, where a women’s place is to bear children and suffer, a place that has forbidden child marriages and ritual killings but where they still happen, a country where the rich are so rich they’re the people who spend most in champagne and have the second biggest cinematic industry (first is India), but where superstition still claims lives, and also gives hope and thus, and incredibly so among such poverty and strife, they’re also the most optimist people in the world.
Adduni is somewhere in between, forced to be a wife when’s she but a child, to be raped and mistreated so she can bear more children that’ll suffer her same fortune, but when she’s faced with possible murder for a crime she didn’t commit and has no hope of being absolved from she escapes to Lagos (capital of Nigeria) with the help of someone who still owes her giving mother life and hope.
There she becomes a domestic, a maid working infinite hours in a house of violence and luxury, but it’s there she’ll meet her hopes and destiny but not before being confronted with inequality, drama, and facing the suffering of her women kindred.
There’s so much more to say about this book and its heroine, a young girl full of hope for her and her people, dreams of eduction, of own voice to speak for the countless speechless.
This book made me laugh and cry, Adduni is such a wonderful smart and naive character, with a heart of the size of Nigeria. And through her goodness she’ll bring forth people that’ll aid her in fulfilling her destiny.
The narrative is brilliant and the writing wonderful and made so it is part of the plot and narration, it’s sensorial, as to make you feel you’re truly there, the colors, the smells, the noises, the aromas of a country we have a glimpse through the author’s eyes.
Truly a must read book.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Trafficking, Slavery, Misogyny, Infidelity, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Domestic abuse, and Death of parent

Minor: Domestic abuse, Violence, and Pregnancy

nataliereadz's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

This book smashed me into a million little pieces, then cradled and rocked those pieces in arms of hope, joy, love, grace and pure unwavering faith, until they found their way back together again.

This one's gunna take some time to recover from! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Violence, Trafficking, Slavery, and Sexual assault

Minor: Injury/Injury detail

nikkibd4033's review

emotional hopeful inspiring sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Colonisation, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Child abuse, and Physical abuse

liesbethvv's review against another edition

dark emotional funny inspiring tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

I read this book for a Reading Around The World bookclub and after our discussion, I kept my rating of 4 stars.
The Girl with the Louding Voice is the story of Adunni, a teenage girl being married off to an old man as a third wife who endures many hardships (do check the trigger warnings) but keeps insisting on trying to make life beter for herself and fighting for her education. She talks us through her experiences in her broken English, that gets better as she learns towards the end of the book. This is a gimmick that takes some getting used too, but certainly helped to transport me to Nigeria and Adunni's reality. 
Sometimes Adunni broaches societal issues in a way that I feel is too unrealistic for a 14yo girl with a basic education and that made it feel a little forced sometimes, with social criticism being mentioned too literal to my taste. On the other hand, some of her returns are quite insightful or just plain funny.
Adunni's story captivated me, moved me and made me hope for better for her and many others in her life.
One thing to note is that this book was written for a western audience, published in the UK and might not be very representative of Nigerian literature.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Infidelity, Abortion, Classism, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Child abuse, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Grief, Violence, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, and Trafficking

Minor: Religious bigotry, Racism, Miscarriage, Misogyny, and Murder