cocoonofbooks 's review for:

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

3.0

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Good, though not as an enjoyable a read as Americanah. I found it interesting mostly because it introduced me to the Nigerian civil war in the 1960s, something I knew nothing about. I liked the Adichie rotated the narration between several different characters, but ultimately none of them were that engaging for me and I couldn't bring myself to care a great deal what happened to any particular character. I really don't understand why Adichie decided to jump around in time -- going from the early 60s to the late 60s and back to the early 60s before picking up where the second section left off. There's supposed to be some mysterious event that happened in the meantime that you don't find out until the third section, but it ended up being pretty much what I expected. In any case, I liked the book, and I learned something from it, but it's not one of my favorites.