Jaiye Jaiye: The Complete Series

by A. T. Nwokedi (The Fertile Chick)

Jaiye is engaged to her high-school sweetheart; chubby, sweet-natured Yomi, whom everyone loves. Even though she is crazy about him, she finds herself agitated about being engaged at the tender age of 24. As the wedding planning progresses, she has a severe meltdown, culminating in her ending their engagement and breaking Yomi’s heart. Following the breakup, she feels as free as a bird and is finally able to do all she wanted to; return to school, travel the world and build a career. She is loving the single life. Until she turns 30…and suddenly, the single life doesn’t seem quite so appealing anymore. After a chance encounter with Yomi, she realises she made a costly mistake. He has lost all the weight and has never looked better. She becomes obsessed with getting him back, but not only is he now with someone else, he is set to leave for a new job overseas. Saddened, she accepts defeat and decides to look for love elsewhere. What follows are the travails of a 30-something-year-old woman dating in the city of Lagos. Will she find the love of her life? Or will she win back the affection of the one whom she has loved all of her life?

104 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 27, 2019

Reviews

[Rayo Reads · Rating 3 out of 5]

Thank you to Adesuwa O'man Nwokedi for the chance to read this book.

Jaiyeola is set to marry the man of her dreams (or is she?)... so why does she feel trapped? Why does everything her love of her life, Yomi, do tend to annoy her—including his eating choices?! 😂 Yomi isn’t the man of her dreams anymore. She’s young and isn’t about to lose her freedom for a ring and the title of a wife, so she drops Yomi like someone eating hot yam and begins the path to her free and youthful life 🙂.

Personally, I found Jaiye very, very superficial 😒. Once again: communication, guys! If she had opened up about how she felt about the wedding and everything to her Yomi, I’m sure he would have understood!

So when she finally got tired of her free and youthful life, and she eventually thought, let me settle down and have a family, she did a 360 and circled back to Yomi... as how, nah!! 😮‍💨 Omo, I couldn’t root for them 😒.

[Jasmine · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was so good.. I love everything about this book .. Jaiye made stupid decision at her early stages of her life but I was glad she came back to her senses😂😂😂.. this second chance romance is as so well written and detailed.. The character development , very fast paced,the choice of music ,the writing , the setting all made sense.. Yomi was such an intentional and sweet man .. every lady needs a man like him.. I highly recommend this book 👏👏

[nini⭐️ · Rating 5 out of 5]

This may be my favorite Adesuwa book outside the Malomo series. My only complaint is it wasn’t longer.