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portybelle 's review for:
Yinka, Where is Your Huzband?
by Lizzie Damilola Blackburn
What I liked: I enjoyed finding out a little about Nigerian culture and the extended families which form close knit communities often centred about a Church. It was thought-provoking to read about the way that older generations still had certain expectations and beliefs about what indicated success. For a woman that was most certainly settling down with a husband and having children. I liked that Yinka’s religious beliefs, particularly around sex before marriage, were not ridiculed in the book but respected, at least by most characters.
What I didn’t like: I thought that Yinka made quite a few bad decisions throughout the book, decisions which inevitably led to some disaster or another. She neglected her sister, she lied about her work situation to her mum and others, and she seemed incredibly naïve for a modern woman in her thirties.
Overall: I did enjoy the book but I didn’t love it as much I had thought I would. Perhaps I was unfairly expecting it to be more of a rom-com like Bridget Jones was. There were a few parts I found amusing but not particularly laugh out loud funny. This book wasn’t really so much about Yinka finding love as learning to love and accept herself as she was. This was the aspect of the book I enjoyed the most.
3.5* rounded up.
What I didn’t like: I thought that Yinka made quite a few bad decisions throughout the book, decisions which inevitably led to some disaster or another. She neglected her sister, she lied about her work situation to her mum and others, and she seemed incredibly naïve for a modern woman in her thirties.
Overall: I did enjoy the book but I didn’t love it as much I had thought I would. Perhaps I was unfairly expecting it to be more of a rom-com like Bridget Jones was. There were a few parts I found amusing but not particularly laugh out loud funny. This book wasn’t really so much about Yinka finding love as learning to love and accept herself as she was. This was the aspect of the book I enjoyed the most.
3.5* rounded up.