Ezioma Kalu
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...
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Ezioma Kalu
Aug 25, 20232 min read
Book Review: Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert
Blurb When brooding security guard Zafir Ansari rescues Dani from a workplace fire drill gone wrong, it’s an obvious sign: PhD student...
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Ezioma Kalu
Aug 25, 20232 min read
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...
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Ezioma Kalu
Aug 25, 20232 min read
Book Review: Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
Blurb There are no monsters anymore, or so the children in the city of Lucille are taught. Jam and her best friend, Redemption, have...
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Ezioma Kalu
Aug 25, 20232 min read
Book Review: Ogadinma by Ukamaka Olisakwe
Blurb Ogadinma Or, Everything Will be All Right tells the story of the naïve and trusting teenager Ogadinma as she battles against...
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Ezioma Kalu
Aug 25, 20232 min read
Book Review: His Only Wife by Peace Adzo Medie.
Blurb Afi Tekple is a young seamstress whose life is narrowing rapidly. She lives in a small town in Ghana with her widowed mother,...
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Ezioma Kalu
Aug 25, 20232 min read
Book Review: Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover
Blurb When Tate Collins meets airline pilot Miles Archer, she knows it isn’t love at first sight. They wouldn’t even go so far as to...
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Ezioma Kalu
Aug 22, 20232 min read
Book Review: The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's wives by Lola Shoneyin.
Blurb African-born poet Lola Shoneyin makes her fiction debut with The Secret Lives of Babi Segi’s Wives, a perceptive, entertaining, and...
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Ezioma Kalu
Aug 22, 20233 min read
Book Review: Vagabonds! by Eloghosa Osunde
Blurb As in Nigeria, vagabonds are those whose existence is literally outlawed: the queer, the poor, the displaced, the footloose and...
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Ezioma Kalu
Aug 21, 20232 min read
Book Review: The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood
Blurb As a third-year Ph.D. candidate, Olive Smith doesn't believe in lasting romantic relationships--but her best friend does, and...
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Ezioma Kalu
Aug 21, 20232 min read
Book Review: The Hairdresser of Harare by Tendai Huchu
Blurb Vimbai is the best hairdresser in Mrs. Khumalo’s salon, and she is secure in her status until the handsome, smooth-talking Dumisani...
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Ezioma Kalu
Aug 21, 20232 min read
Book Review: What It Means When A Man Falls From The Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah
Blurb A dazzlingly accomplished debut collection explores the ties that bind parents and children, husbands and wives, lovers and friends...
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Ezioma Kalu
Aug 21, 20232 min read
Book Review: It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover.
Blurb Lily hasn’t always had it easy, but that’s never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She’s come a long way from...
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Ezioma Kalu
Aug 21, 20232 min read
Book Review: The Naked Face by Sidney Sheldon
Blurb Dr. Judd Stevens is a psychoanalyst faced with the most critical case of his life. He needs to penetrate the mind of a murderer. If...
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Ezioma Kalu
Aug 21, 20232 min read
Book Review: Wahala by Nikki May
Blurb Ronke wants happily ever after and 2.2. kids. She’s dating Kayode and wants him to be “the one” (perfect, like her dead father)....
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Ezioma Kalu
Aug 21, 20233 min read
Book Review: In Every Mirror She's Black by Lola Akinmade Akerstrom.
Blurb Three Black women are linked in unexpected ways to the same influential white man in Stockholm as they build their new lives in the...
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Ezioma Kalu
Aug 21, 20232 min read
Book Review: Stay with me by Ayobami Adebayo.
Blurb Yejide and Akin have been married since they met and fell in love at university. Though many expected Akin to take several wives,...
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Ezioma Kalu
Aug 21, 20233 min read
Book Review: Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband? by Lizzie Damilola Blackburn.
Blurb Yinka's Nigerian aunties frequently pray for her delivery from singledom, her work friends think she's too traditional (she's...
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Ezioma Kalu
Aug 20, 20234 min read
Book Review: Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
Blurb Gifty is a fifth-year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford School of Medicine studying reward-seeking behavior in mice and the...
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Ezioma Kalu
Aug 20, 20234 min read
Book Review: A House Without Windows by Nadia Hashimi
Blurb For two decades, Zeba was a loving wife, a patient mother, and a peaceful villager. But her quiet life is shattered when her...
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