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Book Review: Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson.
Blurb Two young people meet at a pub in South East London. Both are Black British, both won scholarships to private schools where they...
Ezioma Kalu
Nov 2, 20234 min read
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Book Review: Confessions of an Alleged Good Girl by Joya Goffney.
Blurb Monique is a preacher's daughter who detests the impossible rules of her religion. Everyone expects her to wait until marriage, so...
Ezioma Kalu
Oct 26, 20234 min read
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Book Review: Tomorrow Died Yesterday by Chimeka Garricks.
Blurb Its 2004 Port Harcourt at the height of the kidnap of oil workers in the Niger Delta, a kidnapping goes awry and four lives are...
Ezioma Kalu
Sep 28, 20233 min read
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Book Review: You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi.
Blurb Feyi Adekola wants to learn how to be alive again. It’s been five years since the accident that killed the love of her life and...
Ezioma Kalu
Sep 26, 20234 min read
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Book Review: Dele Weds Destiny by Tomi Obaro.
Blurb Funmi, Enitan, and Zainab first meet at university in Nigeria and become friends for life despite their differences. Funmi is...
Ezioma Kalu
Sep 22, 20234 min read
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Book Review: Daughters who walk this path by Yejide Kilanko.
Blurb SPIRITED AND INTELLIGENT, MORAYO grows up surrounded by school friends and family in busy, modern-day Ibadan. An adoring little...
Ezioma Kalu
Sep 22, 20236 min read
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Book Review: Devil's Pawn by Kukogho Iruesiri Samson.
Blurb When the Black Cats join their capone to “punish” a fellow student, they have no idea the terror they are about to unleash. When...
Ezioma Kalu
Sep 22, 20236 min read
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Book Review: A Girl is a Body of Water by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi.
Blurb In her twelfth year, Kirabo, a young Ugandan girl, confronts a piercing question that has haunted her childhood: who is my mother?...
Ezioma Kalu
Sep 20, 20236 min read
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Book Review: Manchester Happened by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi.
Blurb An ambitious and assured collection of short stories from the internationally acclaimed author of Kintu If there's one thing the...
Ezioma Kalu
Sep 20, 20235 min read
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Book Review: Verity by Colleen Hoover
Blurb Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford,...
Ezioma Kalu
Sep 18, 20234 min read
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Book Review: Beach Read by Emily Henry.
Blurb Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a happily...
Ezioma Kalu
Sep 16, 20234 min read
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Book Review: Born on a Tuesday by Elnathan John.
Blurb In far northwestern Nigeria, Dantala lives among a gang of street boys who sleep under a kuka tree. During the election, the boys...
Ezioma Kalu
Sep 9, 20234 min read
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Book Review: The Teller of Secrets by Bisi Adjapon.
Blurb Young Esi Agyekum is the unofficial “secret keeper” of her family, as tight-lipped about her father's adultery as she is about her...
Ezioma Kalu
Sep 9, 20234 min read
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Book Review: November 9 by Colleen Hoover.
Blurb Fallon meets Ben, an aspiring novelist, the day before her scheduled cross-country move. Their untimely attraction leads them to...
Ezioma Kalu
Sep 6, 20234 min read
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Book Review: My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite.
Blurb When Korede's dinner is interrupted one night by a distress call from her sister, Ayoola, she knows what's expected of her: bleach,...
Ezioma Kalu
Sep 5, 20236 min read
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Book Review: Fine Boys by Eghosa Imasuen.
Blurb Ewaen is a Nigerian teenager, bored at home in Warri and eager to flee from his parents’ unhappy marriage and incessant quarreling....
Ezioma Kalu
Sep 2, 20235 min read
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Book Review: I Was a Teen Rock Star! by A.H. Mohammed.
Blurb Sixteen year old Lanre Bandele finds solace in his music and dreams of being professional musician. Can dreams come true? Maybe. An...
Ezioma Kalu
Sep 1, 20233 min read
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Book Review: Butter Honey Pig Bread by Francesca Ekwuyasi
Blurb Spanning three continents, Butter Honey Pig Bread tells the interconnected stories of three Nigerian women: Kambirinachi and her...
Ezioma Kalu
Aug 28, 20233 min read
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Book Review: The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
Blurb Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand...
Ezioma Kalu
Aug 25, 20232 min read
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Book Review: Speak No Evil by Uzodinma Iweala
Blurb A revelation shared between two privileged teenagers from very different backgrounds sets off a chain of events with devastating...
Ezioma Kalu
Aug 25, 20232 min read
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