rrgailey 's review for:

The Sun Sets in Singapore by Kehinde Fadipe

3.5

emotional funny hopeful sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Three Nigerian women living in Singapore have their lives unbalanced when a Nigerian man arrives and impacts them all in different ways. (Don’t worry, this isn’t a love quadrangle.) This is one of those books where you get attached to the characters and then watch in dismay as they making increasingly terrible mistakes. It offers an interesting look at the opulence and pressure of Singapore and the lives of a minority community there. I wish there would have been more Singaporean characters than one throwaway side character, but perhaps that is not this author’s story to tell.