A review by saeruh
The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna

challenging emotional

2.0

Whew boy I am finally done with this book. The writing style is so odd and the pacing is so slow that this took me several weeks to read because I could only read about 30-40 pages a day before getting hopelessly bored. I considered dnfing but I had actually paid for the kindle version because the premise sounded so interesting. The way I would possibly recommend this book to others is if you’re super into English literature because there is some quite beautiful bits of writing, it’s just the overall prose completely bogs down everything. For being a book that takes place in a specific place in a specific period of time, I found that it was quite difficult to tell that the setting was actually Sierra Leone without the book description telling me so.