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Nightbloom by Peace Adzo Medie
4.0
Rating 3.5
I loved His Only Wife and I’m was excited when this came out, though I liked this but I enjoyed His Only Wife better.
Selasi and Akorfa grew up together in Ghana. They were more than cousins, they have opposite personality but inseparable and would do anything for each other, share secrets and dreams. Selasi changed overtime, became quiet, aloof and failing school. While Akorfa was doing well in her school, accepted and liked by her peers, got accepted at American University to become a doctor. The cousins went separate ways and they created their own path and their own life. When a family crisis brought them back together, things started to unravel and they discovered some devastating truths that questions their roles in letting things happen and their estrangement.
The story is told in three parts - the story from Akorfa’s view, the story from Selasi’s view and then both views. I don’t have an issue with this format, except when it starts with either Akorfa and Selasi, the story seems to repeat from the start. But I like that we see how they react or treat a same situation differently. I don’t like Akorfa’s character, don’t sympathize with her, though I feel that her personality is largely brought about by her mother, which is another unlikable character. I prefer Selali’s character. Between the two, hers has more depth and you can feel her struggles all through the story. There’s one part on Selasi’s story that I didn’t like which I think is a little bit unnecessary. I would rather see her more of her growing up story.
Although there are slow parts in the story but overall I like it. I like the author’s writing, I like the story on family dynamics and class in Ghana. How one sees a situation while the other sees differently, how sometime our memory fails us or we seem to forget that things happened.
I loved His Only Wife and I’m was excited when this came out, though I liked this but I enjoyed His Only Wife better.
Selasi and Akorfa grew up together in Ghana. They were more than cousins, they have opposite personality but inseparable and would do anything for each other, share secrets and dreams. Selasi changed overtime, became quiet, aloof and failing school. While Akorfa was doing well in her school, accepted and liked by her peers, got accepted at American University to become a doctor. The cousins went separate ways and they created their own path and their own life. When a family crisis brought them back together, things started to unravel and they discovered some devastating truths that questions their roles in letting things happen and their estrangement.
The story is told in three parts - the story from Akorfa’s view, the story from Selasi’s view and then both views. I don’t have an issue with this format, except when it starts with either Akorfa and Selasi, the story seems to repeat from the start. But I like that we see how they react or treat a same situation differently. I don’t like Akorfa’s character, don’t sympathize with her, though I feel that her personality is largely brought about by her mother, which is another unlikable character. I prefer Selali’s character. Between the two, hers has more depth and you can feel her struggles all through the story. There’s one part on Selasi’s story that I didn’t like which I think is a little bit unnecessary. I would rather see her more of her growing up story.
Although there are slow parts in the story but overall I like it. I like the author’s writing, I like the story on family dynamics and class in Ghana. How one sees a situation while the other sees differently, how sometime our memory fails us or we seem to forget that things happened.