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War Girls by Tochi Onyebuchi
5.0
War Girls takes place in a futuristic Africa that is not so far away. Drawing it's plot from the Nigerian Civil war against the Eastern people of the nation who declared themselves citizens of The Republic of Biafra.
The story follows two sisters, Onyii and Ify as they struggle through the war.
If it's African futurism I'll definitely read it but I didn't expect to start this book on a day and finish it that same day. I couldn't stop and it was worth it.
The two sisters are Torn apart after the Nigerian army detects a signal from the War girls'— young soldier girls with prosthesis replacing limbs and organs they lost during the ongoing civil war.
Onyii finds herself becoming the Demon of Biafra, a killing machine that has almost lost her humanity. While Ify, now a Nigerian, is torn between believing the lessons she learned about Nigerians in their camp and believing that Onyii is the enemy.
I so much loved the setting of this book. The description brought the technology to life. Think Hunger games, divergent but set in a post colonial Nigeria.
Names, dressing, everything about this book breathes science and technology, it breathes Nigerian's history.
I honestly didn't want it end. I loved the relationships between the sisters. This book dares you to experience how the civil war broke families, torn the Igbos apart and the lives that were lost. Even when freedom was at arms length, the death of comrades, lovers, families, and even the enemy weighed more than the peace they achieved.
"What is war, if not a thing that has no regards for anyone."
The story follows two sisters, Onyii and Ify as they struggle through the war.
If it's African futurism I'll definitely read it but I didn't expect to start this book on a day and finish it that same day. I couldn't stop and it was worth it.
The two sisters are Torn apart after the Nigerian army detects a signal from the War girls'— young soldier girls with prosthesis replacing limbs and organs they lost during the ongoing civil war.
Onyii finds herself becoming the Demon of Biafra, a killing machine that has almost lost her humanity. While Ify, now a Nigerian, is torn between believing the lessons she learned about Nigerians in their camp and believing that Onyii is the enemy.
I so much loved the setting of this book. The description brought the technology to life. Think Hunger games, divergent but set in a post colonial Nigeria.
Names, dressing, everything about this book breathes science and technology, it breathes Nigerian's history.
I honestly didn't want it end. I loved the relationships between the sisters. This book dares you to experience how the civil war broke families, torn the Igbos apart and the lives that were lost. Even when freedom was at arms length, the death of comrades, lovers, families, and even the enemy weighed more than the peace they achieved.
"What is war, if not a thing that has no regards for anyone."