A review by crazysecondname
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

dark informative sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

I finished it yesterday and then I needed to sleep before I could write anything about it
and I still don't know how many stars I want to give...
but generally uff
what a book
first off all: I learned thinsg about nigeria I didn't know before and I am very grateful for that
and I did like the characters until they did certain things which made me extremely angry
like we start with odenigbo cheating on olanna like fuck you and then she goes to cheat on him with richard so I hated 2 of the 3 POV characters :))) and also almost stopped reading the book and then luckily had to put it away either way and the next day I was more or less okay again like I still hated it and the worst üart was that olanna went back to odenigbo like girl have some self respect. okay yes it is the 60s but still
so then I only liked ugwu.
and then page 366 happened. by that I liked olanna and richard and odenigbo again more or less. but ugwu? yeah i still hate him for that
and then he died and I was like oh come on. I hopehe suffered
and then he wasn't dead after all and I was like oh come on. but at least he also regretted it?? but still i hated reading about that part and felt it was very unnecessary.
i don't care that it's a war and people did that in reality. I don't want characters in books to do it. especially not when I liked them for 360 pages.


which i why I can't give this book 5 stars, but not giving it 5 stars feels wrong too?????idk man
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