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The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
3.5
Margret is boring as hell and I would’ve ate up this book if it was 150 pages shorter and just simply the fictional biography of Vida Winter now THAT story is really interesting.
His Only Wife by Peace Adzo Medie
2.75
Ok so I didn’t absolutely hate how this book ended. However there were some glaring issues.
- Afi was portrayed to be a not so naive girl from a small Ghanaian town but I feel like she was way more naive than novel originally made her out to be.
- Muna was portrayed as this evil ugly, homewrecking troll by Elis family simply because the totalitarian like matriarch of this family didn’t approve of her.
- Afi ate this up, never questioning the family’s perception of Muna until actually seeing her for herself and even in that her first “revelation” about Muna was “she’s not ugly” Only a light skinned woman would fall for the ugly uncooperative dark skin woman troupe.
- Her character development was all over the place, my favorite parts were when she decided to learn how to drive, built her mom a house, and opened her boutique but at no point did her development include thinking about Muna’s feelings in this shitty situation and how they were both getting the short end of the stick from the entire Ganyo family.
- At one point Afi is furious at Eli for referring to their marriage as an “arrangement” but is that not what it was from the beginning? You only agreed to this “marriage” to help yourself and your family out financially, which no judgement but you falling in love with dude when you are essentially coming in as the other woman is not really Eli’s problem 🤷🏿♀️ And at no point did she ever really aknowledge that she in reality WAS the other woman.
- The “romance” aspect of this story was complete bullshit. We got 3 pages of insight into Eli and Muna and it was clear even from the little we got that they had more chemistry than Afi and Eli. She was just infatuated with this rich handsome man and his nice things. Which I get, money is nice yoh, but not love.
- This book exemplifies everything I hate about the girl boss feminism that mass media tries to shove down Black women’s throats. The author painted Afi as this character fighting against the patriarchy through individualism and capitalism that prioritizes individual success at the expense of other women.
The Dawn of Yangchen by F.C. Yee
Did not finish book. Stopped at 60%.
Did not finish book. Stopped at 60%.
Lost the plot and am not interested enough to go find it eeek