Reviews - Meio sol amarelo

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Meio sol amarelo

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

4.33 AVERAGE

foxymcflythe's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark sad slow-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

anamcrc's review against another edition

5.0

What a ride. Incredible does not even begin to describe this book. This is the first novel I’m reading by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and I can finally understand the hype about her writing. She is a wonderful storyteller, showcasing multiple perspectives of the same story, including unexpected perspectives of “forgotten characters” as she described it. The ending left me weak, reflecting on what exactly she wrote about: love, pain, loss, longing, family, to name a few. I highly recommend this book, it is a magnificent work of prose and only gets better the further you get into it.

melinoedevours's review against another edition

4.25

dark emotional informative 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

tglg3's review against another edition

5.0

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: Complicated

ebhreath's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional sad 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: No

purplesander's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

ushashib's review against another edition

5.0

All that I knew about Half of a Yellow Sun while starting the book was that it was widely acclaimed and it’s set on the ‘Biafran War’. I had no idea what that was beyond it being a war in Africa. The more I read the novel, the more I learned. And the most predominant emotion I felt was the shame of knowing so little about it. Half of a Yellow Sun chronicles the history of Biafra, the birth and demise of a short-lived nation that many like me never even heard of. It’s a war story and it’s heartbreaking. It is not just about the violence and death, but rather the complete collapse of humanity that war brought with it that rattles the most. We often believe in fighting for a just cause, the right and wrong sides in a war, and maybe those are important. But a story like this shows that how the cause and beliefs blur into human suffering and degradation in a war and make even the strongest believer question everything.

I love Adichie’s writing. It’s straightforward in a beautiful way. And I loved how she used the POVs of 3 related yet very different people to tell this story. This book shocked me more than once, shook my faith in humanity, and made me feel grateful to be living in a time of peace, at least for the time being. This book is going to haunt me for a long time.

‘The world was silent when we died.’ - is the title of an unfinished book written by one of the characters in the book. I wonder how many times the world has done that, and how many more are yet to come.