A review by megatsunami
War Girls by Tochi Onyebuchi

4.0

4 stars for writing quality, but (spoiler alert) (but not really) (did I read the title before checking it out?) this is a book about war. I would say about 60-70% of the book is descriptions of fights and battles. I didn't really enjoy that. I did really appreciate the author's futuristic/ post-apocalyptic take; I loved how this was an Afrocentric book that really didn't concern itself with non-Africans too much; I thought the author explored cyborg/ augmented human issues/ what actually is human nature in an original way; and I loved how even though this book is set in the future, it's really about the Nigerian civil war of the 1960's. The writing is crisp and the characters have enough complexity to make their choices unpredictable. So: definitely read this if you're cool with lots of battling.