Warnings: Murder, of course.
Basic Summary: Korede just wants Ayoola to stop murdering the men she dates.
Review
Setting
This book takes place in modern day Nigeria. The author doesn’t give specific descriptions with exception to two places: Korede’s home and the hospital where she works. The narrative is told through Korede’s point of view so this makes sense to me. The chapters are short with them reading in a prose style. This can have the plot seem a bit disjointed but otherwise, I thought it flowed decently.
Characters
The two characters we get to know most and who are well rounded throughout this book are the two sisters: Korede and Ayoola. Korede, we get to know because it is told through her point of view. It is apparent throughout the text that Korede is just tired. She’s tired of Ayoola and her murdering people, primarily, but there is also other issues going on in Korede’s life. She sees people fall in love with her sister with just a glance all the while knowing what her sister is capable of. Through Korede’s story, we get to see through the eyes of someone who bears witness to these awful things and instead of stopping them, she enables Ayoola. However, though we know Korede does this, one can’t help but empathize with her feelings.
Ayoola we get to know through Korede’s eyes. A point could be made that since we see things through Korede’s eyes that things may not be as they appear with Ayoola. We know all of Ayoola’s dark deeds so it is, at times, hard to see what draws others to her besides her looks. Even with this thought, I think the author does well of giving us a good look at who Ayoola is as a person.
Plot
The plot is a fairly simple one: Korede helps Ayoola clean up another murder and tries to convince her to stop her ways. There are other facets to this. There is quite a few chapters dedicated to the background of the two sisters and their relationship with their father which seems to have a correlation with Ayoola killing off the men in her life. I liked the ambiguous outcome of this book.
Overall
I would recommend this to those who don’t require large amounts of setting description and likes prose style writing.
May you get lost in a book,
Chrissy
Ha ha, I have just downloaded the ebook from the library – I have seen the book around and people have said it’s enjoyable, so I’m going to see for myself.
Can’t wait to hear what you think of it!
I really liked it! I wouldn’t usually read about serial killers…. but this was fun. Review to follow soon.