Reviews - In Every Mirror She's Black

You need to sign in or sign up before continuing.

1.04k reviews for:

In Every Mirror She's Black

Lọlá Ákínmádé Åkerström

3.74 AVERAGE

elysemr's review against another edition

3.75

challenging emotional hopeful informative mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

luna_1312's review against another edition

3.0

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

jckkff's review against another edition

4.0

emotional informative 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

Content Warnings

_temmiepearl01's review against another edition

4.5

challenging emotional 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

rosiefpb's review against another edition

3.0

It only took getting covid for me to actually finish a book this year. No time

shmadsie's review against another edition

1.0

1.5. Gotta be honest, I hated this book, but I never had a chance here because, as established for me, I don't like characters who cheat. If they do then they've got to work hard to gain me back. And not only did these characters cheat but they did it with the creepiest, most unsettling men ever. Like, the gut-check on both of them was immediate uneasiness and then for these women to be like: yeah, I'm with a stable, attractive man but instead I'm gonna do... this, uh, yeah, it was a struggle to even finish this after that. I don't even feel bad for you because it's through your eyes I know that these men are fundamentally wrong and you're making these idiotic choices anyway. I wanted to rate this higher because the layers and themes of this book were good (and the writing itself) but I just hated the story so much that it feels disingenuous to (Goodreads two stars translates to 'it was ok' and... no). I didn't like it and putting the book down was a huge freaking relief.

shandrareads's review against another edition

3.0

Expected something different

I expected a deeper connection between the 3 women and a different ending. While this book intrigued me, I can’t give it more more stars since the ending left me unsatisfied, I wanted things to be more wrapped up. Also the characters kept making cringe worthy choices and Brittany’s characters in particular just seemed unbelievable to me