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4.33 AVERAGE
4.33 AVERAGE
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
slow-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:
Complicated
challenging
hopeful
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Bra skrivet och fascinerande historia men hade för höga förhoppningar
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
challenging
emotional
informative
sad
tense
slow-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:
Complicated
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I'm changed.
I majored in world literature in college with a focus on historic African and Middle Eastern literature. I read *about* Ngozi Adichie, but I was reading the actual *works* of Wa Thiong'o, Achebe, Abani, etc. I missed this incredible, stark portrayal of one of the worst decades and places in human history. How Ngozi Adichie writes with such a profound and intimate love for her people, how clear and disaffected she depicts the utmost cruel capacities of humanity has blown me away.
The characters in this book undergo a changing, a roughening from the tightening of the boundaries of their privileges and their capacities. As each of their comforts is stripped away, as each loss and cruelty is heaped on their lives and those around them, they begin to cut through the world, brutally sharpened by the chaos of war and the cruelty of neocolonialism. It's subtle, masterful, broad, and incredibly, poignantly precise all at once. Bra-fucking-vo.
I majored in world literature in college with a focus on historic African and Middle Eastern literature. I read *about* Ngozi Adichie, but I was reading the actual *works* of Wa Thiong'o, Achebe, Abani, etc. I missed this incredible, stark portrayal of one of the worst decades and places in human history. How Ngozi Adichie writes with such a profound and intimate love for her people, how clear and disaffected she depicts the utmost cruel capacities of humanity has blown me away.
The characters in this book undergo a changing, a roughening from the tightening of the boundaries of their privileges and their capacities. As each of their comforts is stripped away, as each loss and cruelty is heaped on their lives and those around them, they begin to cut through the world, brutally sharpened by the chaos of war and the cruelty of neocolonialism. It's subtle, masterful, broad, and incredibly, poignantly precise all at once. Bra-fucking-vo.
dark
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
It opened my mind to the horrors of war. It informed me of the war in Biafra of which I knew very little about. Interesting and relatable characters.