A review by ngamulka
The Book of Echoes by Rosanna Amaka

4.0

a beautiful read!
it was hard for me to get into this book at first, but after
ngozi's first chapter i was lured in good.
a soul of an enslaved woman almost set free at her death
roams the world in search of her children. a great concept
to tell a story of love through the people's life stories first.
and this book was much more than a story of love. it was a
story of generational pain and trauma. a story of sacrifice.
how money and power make this world deadly. it was also a
story of culture and the good among the bad.
rosanna amaka's words are authentic and they leave you
with so many emotions.
the ending for me was not unexpected but i kind of didn't
realise. where the two stories were going. it was quite quick,
the ending. but i do see that the ending of the book was a
beginning for the character's life together. so i do see the
point. i see the big fall into love that happens very
quickly in real life too.
the book of echoes makes me think of my own roots and
hope that there is an ancestral soul looking for me too and that, whoever it is, they find me
:)