A review by susieliston
Nightbloom by Peace Adzo Medie

2.0

I was doing fine with the first perspective, Akorfa, I don't think I've ever read a book set in Ghana before, and I found the clash of familiar/unfamiliar interesting. Selasi comes off as an ungrateful brat, so I was curious to see the story from her perspective. But. When authors do this, (see "Fingersmith", they need to just hit on highlights on the repeat, don't start the whole thing over in detail because that becomes so tedious, we've heard all this, the only difference is that this time Akorfa is the pain in the butt instead of Selasi. The main problem though, I thought, was that the story skips so much time it seemed moot to me whether they reunited, as they had been out of each other's lives for so long. Like when I told Robert Chavez at a high school reunion that he was very mean to me in 7th grade, he looked at me like I was crazy because apparently he had had a crush on me. (Which is no doubt why he was so mean, that's your first clue that you will never Understand Men, when you cry to your mother that so and so is being horrible and she says, "Oh don't worry, that means he LIKES you." What???) So I lost interest and sort of faded away with this, skimming to the end.