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Life has thrown Zelu some curveballs over the years, but when she's suddenly dropped from her university job and her latest novel is rejected, all in the middle of her sister's wedding, her life is upended. Disabled, unemployed and from a nosy, high-achieving, judgmental family, she's not sure what comes next.
In her hotel room that night, she takes the risk that will define her life - she decides to write a book VERY unlike her others. A science fiction dra...
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Jocelyn_Phoenix20 февраля 2026I have mixed feelings about this.Читать далее
The book is from the perspective of a disabled character, and I think her experience is mostly handled well - the way she navigates daily life, her family, fame, romantic relationships, etc. It was interesting to see and quite thought provoking. It also sent me on a googling spree about ableism because this word is thrown around a lot in the book, not always, as it seemed to me, at the right people.
I enjoyed the cultural context as well - elements of Nigerian culture, the MC being an American born child of immigrants, all the cultural differences and such.
The MC’s family was horrible, though. I thought that with such a large family, no matter the cultural background, there’d be some difference in how the relatives treated her, but there wasn’t. Same goes for her partner and, tbh, her as well - she’s pretty unlikeable, but at least there is some depth to her, and through seeing her experiences I could somewhat relate to her. The others are just awful.
I was also thoroughly annoyed by the book within the book. We constantly get told how amazing and wonderful and genius the MC’s book is, she immediately gets rich and famous and stuff. But then what we read is just meh at best. I also didn’t feel like the two stories meshed together well, for most of the book they are just two very separate stories, with barely any overlap in themes.
The final twist is … kind of neat, but that’s about it. It ties the two parts together a bit, but after the whole book being annoyed by having to read two unrelated stories, it doesn’t help much. It also didn’t really change the way I saw the two stories. And it also hyped up the other story too much - no, it’s not so good a story that it could save the world.
Overall, it has its interesting and insightful moments, but they are padded with a lot of stuff that is not that good.
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