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thereadingmum 's review for:
An Orchestra of Minorities
by Chigozie Obioma
My local library does this sneaky thing where the newest, prettiest books are displayed prominently enticing you to borrow them despite having a growing stack of bought books to consume at home. So I sheepishly took this home a few weeks ago. Now I feel I have been punished for my naughtiness because this is really not my cup of coffee.
Firstly, I do like cultural immersion in my books but the spiritual language and imagery was too much and I ended up skipping a lot particularly as it was so hard to pronounce a lot of the words. Then it was the story. I really hate books where I can see a whole series of awful things are going to happen to the protagonist before they happen and then have to live through it happening! Ugh. So I skimmed through a lot of that too. Lastly, I just couldn't relate to or like the main characters very much. They were rather blah and two-dimensional.
Firstly, I do like cultural immersion in my books but the spiritual language and imagery was too much and I ended up skipping a lot particularly as it was so hard to pronounce a lot of the words. Then it was the story. I really hate books where I can see a whole series of awful things are going to happen to the protagonist before they happen and then have to live through it happening! Ugh. So I skimmed through a lot of that too. Lastly, I just couldn't relate to or like the main characters very much. They were rather blah and two-dimensional.