Ezioma Kalu
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...
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Ezioma Kalu
Oct 26, 20234 min read
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...
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Ezioma Kalu
Oct 26, 20234 min read
Book Review: All Shades of Iberibe by Kasimma.
Blurb In the Nigerian language Igbo "iberibe" means "messed up." This stunning short story collection by Kasimma grabs readers and pulls...
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Ezioma Kalu
Sep 26, 20234 min read
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...
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Ezioma Kalu
Sep 26, 20234 min read
Book Review: The Blessed Girl by Angela Makholwa.
Blurb Young, beautiful and ambitious, Bontle Tau has Johannesburg wrapped around her finger. Her generous admirers are falling over...
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Ezioma Kalu
Sep 22, 20234 min read
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...
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Ezioma Kalu
Sep 22, 20236 min read
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...
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Ezioma Kalu
Sep 22, 20236 min read
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...
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Ezioma Kalu
Sep 21, 20234 min read
Book Review: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini.
Blurb Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry the troubled and bitter Rasheed, who is thirty years her senior. Nearly...
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Ezioma Kalu
Sep 20, 20235 min read
Book Review: International Sisi Eko & Other Stories.
Blurb A desperate doctor commits murder to appease his wife. A drug-dealing family comes undone following a police raid. A young...
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Ezioma Kalu
Sep 20, 20236 min read
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?...
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Ezioma Kalu
Sep 18, 20234 min read
Book Review: Choose Me by Tess Gerritsen and Gary Braver.
Blurb Taryn Moore is young, beautiful and brilliant...so why would she kill herself? When Detective Frankie Loomis arrives on the scene...
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Ezioma Kalu
Sep 18, 20234 min read
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,...
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Ezioma Kalu
Sep 16, 20234 min read
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...
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Ezioma Kalu
Sep 9, 20234 min read
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...
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Ezioma Kalu
Sep 9, 20234 min read
Book Review: Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi.
Blurb Two half-sisters, Effia and Esi, are born into different villages in eighteenth-century Ghana. Effia is married off to an...
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Ezioma Kalu
Sep 9, 20234 min read
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...
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Ezioma Kalu
Sep 6, 20234 min read
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...
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Ezioma Kalu
Sep 1, 20233 min read
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...
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Ezioma Kalu
Aug 28, 20233 min read
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...
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