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Adanna
Adanna, the haunting beauty married off to a man three times her senior. After enduring two decades of abuse, she and the rest of the household awaken to the murder of her husband, Chief Arinze Nsofor. With everything to gain with him being out of the picture, she is a key suspect. But also suspicious are his children, each of whom he has a strained relationship with...not to mention the other numerous people nursing deep grudges against him. In this tale of love, lust and revenge, the question remains; who killed Chief?
471 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 22, 2020
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About the author
Adesuwa O'man Nwokedi
41 books477 followersThe Writer, who became an Engineer, who became an Investment Banker, who became a Fertility Spokesperson, who became…a Writer.
That has been the journey of A. T. Nwokedi, aka The Fertile Chick. A self confessed hopeless romantic, when she is not creating new characters, she devotes her time to creating memories with her husband and their three children.
That has been the journey of A. T. Nwokedi, aka The Fertile Chick. A self confessed hopeless romantic, when she is not creating new characters, she devotes her time to creating memories with her husband and their three children.
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August 9, 2024
I need to know who broke this writer. Books like these aren't born from mere imagination. I've lost count of how many times I had to drop this book to take a break from its toxicity, yet I still couldn't get enough of it. I felt a rollercoaster of emotions, from anger to sadness to relief, back to sadness.
I cried a lot, gave myself a pounding headache, and had to keep reminding myself that the book isn't real, it's just a work of fiction. I really hope no human being had to endure what Adanna went through.
I cried a lot, gave myself a pounding headache, and had to keep reminding myself that the book isn't real, it's just a work of fiction. I really hope no human being had to endure what Adanna went through.
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August 17, 2024A horrific and tragic tale, with very detailed sexual and physical abuse of a young woman married off to a much older wealthy man.
It’s such a brutal story filled with horrors that didn’t stop from beginning to end and even in the last chapter there was still a final attempt to horrify.
Yet, I finished this story.
The writer is brilliant at engaging a readers emotions.
If you enjoy sorrowful stories with detailed acts of violence, rape and abuse, this will tickle your fancy.
Otherwise, steer clear.
Triggers abound like a MF
It’s such a brutal story filled with horrors that didn’t stop from beginning to end and even in the last chapter there was still a final attempt to horrify.
Yet, I finished this story.
The writer is brilliant at engaging a readers emotions.
If you enjoy sorrowful stories with detailed acts of violence, rape and abuse, this will tickle your fancy.
Otherwise, steer clear.
Triggers abound like a MF
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
January 19, 2025
God abeg and the author had the audacity to say she is a hopeless romantic. There was nothing romantic about this book it was more hopeless. Severe trauma like severe tw ⚠️( severe talks about sexual violence ), because I am so dumbfounded, how did the author sit down and actually write this book. Like Adana, needs serious deliverance after this because there is no way you’ll be standing after all of that rubbish !! Even in the ending Akanna blood of Jesus 😭
October 26, 2024
I normally don’t like long books. I convinced myself that stories can definitely be told in many ways, so why make them unbearably long with excessively long chapters when they could be short, right? But I really like Adanna. Every word, every sentence, every paragraph… everything felt like it had an important role to play in this book.
I spoke to my friends while reading this book. I said many things, mainly about how much I try to understand what has been done to a lot of African writers, because the things they write cannot be a product of mere imagination. This book broke me with almost every page and every chapter, but did I stop? No. Because I just couldn’t. I was drawn in and just NEEDED to know how it ended. To me, that’s a good book—one that holds your attention. I loved how beautifully written it was, how I felt like, for some reason, I could feel the pain the characters in this book felt.
This book is TRAUMA personified. I genuinely don’t understand what I have just read. Will I be able to fall asleep tonight? It is a whirlwind of emotions. I told my friend that it is heartbreak in every sense of the word: trauma, grief, sadness, suffering—EVERYTHING. A true work of art. To think that the experiences in this book are experiences people had and ARE STILL HAVING in this day and age is scary. Adanna was truly a victim of a failed system that couldn’t care less about her, her dreams, her safety, her innocence, and any form of progress she could make in her life, which is truly sad. She was a victim of the “untouchables” produced by a system of corruption that feeds people the idea that power and strength can be used to prey on innocent people, making them feel powerless, vulnerable, and helpless. Where simply finding someone you could talk to was likened to “falling in love.”
I spoke to my friends while reading this book. I said many things, mainly about how much I try to understand what has been done to a lot of African writers, because the things they write cannot be a product of mere imagination. This book broke me with almost every page and every chapter, but did I stop? No. Because I just couldn’t. I was drawn in and just NEEDED to know how it ended. To me, that’s a good book—one that holds your attention. I loved how beautifully written it was, how I felt like, for some reason, I could feel the pain the characters in this book felt.
This book is TRAUMA personified. I genuinely don’t understand what I have just read. Will I be able to fall asleep tonight? It is a whirlwind of emotions. I told my friend that it is heartbreak in every sense of the word: trauma, grief, sadness, suffering—EVERYTHING. A true work of art. To think that the experiences in this book are experiences people had and ARE STILL HAVING in this day and age is scary. Adanna was truly a victim of a failed system that couldn’t care less about her, her dreams, her safety, her innocence, and any form of progress she could make in her life, which is truly sad. She was a victim of the “untouchables” produced by a system of corruption that feeds people the idea that power and strength can be used to prey on innocent people, making them feel powerless, vulnerable, and helpless. Where simply finding someone you could talk to was likened to “falling in love.”
April 28, 2025
Adanna the foolish goat😭
Idk but I was already guessing the shit that would happen, there was no unexpected change or plot development in the book.
Now about this Adanna, she’s a very foolish woman, after Akanna and Chief’s abuse, she was foolish enough she would find love with the gardener and get away????
But honestly she went through shit😭
That Akanna is an animal, a beast!!!
And then she foolishly thought she was in love with the doctor 😭???
Isn’t that mental illness?
When she kissed him I went through second hand embarrassment 😭
And she foolishly thought she could escape with Naeto after Akanna saw them together? Something is loose in her head.
And then the murder fiasco 🤣
At some point I suspected everyone, even Daluchi😭.
And then s he was foolish enough to forgive Akanna!!!! A whole Akanna!!!
Very foolish woman!
If not for how Naeto suffered to be with her, I would’ve wished for her to burn alongside Akanna
Idk but I was already guessing the shit that would happen, there was no unexpected change or plot development in the book.
Now about this Adanna, she’s a very foolish woman, after Akanna and Chief’s abuse, she was foolish enough she would find love with the gardener and get away????
But honestly she went through shit😭
That Akanna is an animal, a beast!!!
And then she foolishly thought she was in love with the doctor 😭???
Isn’t that mental illness?
When she kissed him I went through second hand embarrassment 😭
And she foolishly thought she could escape with Naeto after Akanna saw them together? Something is loose in her head.
And then the murder fiasco 🤣
At some point I suspected everyone, even Daluchi😭.
And then s he was foolish enough to forgive Akanna!!!! A whole Akanna!!!
Very foolish woman!
If not for how Naeto suffered to be with her, I would’ve wished for her to burn alongside Akanna
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October 3, 2024A heartbreaking tale of a girl trapped by obligation to family, desperate for someone or something, anyone or anything to save her from an existence more cruel than death.
I had to sort-of dissociate myself from this book while I was reading, to protect myself. I couldn’t allow myself be fully immersed in the fictional world as is my usual practice, and even at that, it was still so gut-wrenching reading all that Adanna endured as a young girl and as a woman. There seemed to be no respite. She endured so much.
As much as I want to tell myself “it’s just a book”, we all know there are countless women living in such terrible conditions. & even if it were only one woman, it would be one woman too many.
In an ideal world, every woman is free, whatever “free” means to her.
My heart goes out to every victim of abuse. This is one of those books that will stay with you.
I had to sort-of dissociate myself from this book while I was reading, to protect myself. I couldn’t allow myself be fully immersed in the fictional world as is my usual practice, and even at that, it was still so gut-wrenching reading all that Adanna endured as a young girl and as a woman. There seemed to be no respite. She endured so much.
As much as I want to tell myself “it’s just a book”, we all know there are countless women living in such terrible conditions. & even if it were only one woman, it would be one woman too many.
In an ideal world, every woman is free, whatever “free” means to her.
My heart goes out to every victim of abuse. This is one of those books that will stay with you.
February 5, 2025
this book was quite terrible. i don't mind reading books that deal with trauma and hard topics, but it felt like the author just added every possible horrible scenario that could happen to someone and called it a book. the main character was unbelieveably stupid and made the most ridiculous and hard to believe decisions. aside from the ridiculous plot line, the author does not know how to write well.
August 14, 2025
I have seen villains before but Akanna is a discovery. Tufia!! 😫😫
From a first-person singular perspective, Adanna tells the story of the protagonist, Adanna who becomes a child bride at 16 after her family falls on hard times following the death of her father. In a desperate bid to save them, she accepts Chief Arinze’s marriage proposal, trading her freedom for financial security. What follows is over two decades of unimaginable suffering in his household.
The relentless sexual abuse and humiliation she is made to endure in the hands of her husband’s first son, Akanna whom I’d say is the devil himself will leave your jaw on the floor.
This book is beautifully written and utterly immersive. I was completely engrossed, unable to think of anything else until I reached the final page!
I saw a whole lot about how traumatizing this book is but I’m here to tell you that this author has written such an excellent story that it’ll be a huge crime for you not to read this book. I strongly and wholeheartedly recommend it!! 💯
From a first-person singular perspective, Adanna tells the story of the protagonist, Adanna who becomes a child bride at 16 after her family falls on hard times following the death of her father. In a desperate bid to save them, she accepts Chief Arinze’s marriage proposal, trading her freedom for financial security. What follows is over two decades of unimaginable suffering in his household.
The relentless sexual abuse and humiliation she is made to endure in the hands of her husband’s first son, Akanna whom I’d say is the devil himself will leave your jaw on the floor.
This book is beautifully written and utterly immersive. I was completely engrossed, unable to think of anything else until I reached the final page!
I saw a whole lot about how traumatizing this book is but I’m here to tell you that this author has written such an excellent story that it’ll be a huge crime for you not to read this book. I strongly and wholeheartedly recommend it!! 💯
September 17, 2024
This book was so heartbreaking but so good!
March 30, 2021
Adanna. . .the eponymous title of the crime mystery/thriller from Bambooks bestselling author The Fertile Chick.
A couple of things did leap out at me with Adanna; first was the eponymous title. Second was the hook.
I dived into this novel, not knowing what to expect from the read.
The Fertile Chick’s thriller offering, offers up more than just a thriller or a crime mystery; it offers up so much more. From the beginning, the tension between the characters is incredibly acidic and porous, diffused by only about just one chapter of Adanna’s life wherein she had a semblance of a normal life, a crush, even hopes for a future involving books and a thrilling, fulfilling career.
However, from there, this story swiftly went from 1000 to 100 to zero in terms of horror; the horror of what any Nigerian who’s lived in that clime would aptly term the “Female Nigerian Experience”. And from there the story kept going down the more, if that is actually possible. Reading Adanna from The Fertile Chick is just like chancing upon a train wreck, with mangled bodies, blood oozing from destroyed orifices, soaking into metal and sand; flies buzzing everywhere and around everything, the stench of human suffering suffusing the air so much so that you want to retch violently—and yet, you cannot look away. Try hard as you might, do the best you can, but you cannot look away. That is the apt description of the events of this novel; this rollercoaster ride that will take you through the gamut of love, sheer terror, abuse—domestic, physical, emotional, sexual and psychological—and the desolation of the human spirit.
Some readers have described The Fertile Chick as having a fertile imagination, or rather, a wild imagination. I do so agree, but for whatever reason, I cannot help but wonder why one person would choose to invest so much in horror and suffering for the characters she created; Adanna.
Nothing more aptly captures the reality of the Nigerian Woman—not all, but that does not mean that we should not have this narrative and a discourse around the patriarchy structure firmly in place within Nigeria to subjugate women at all times—whose fortune is tied to a man in her life, be it her father, her brother, her spouse, or even a third-party abuser.
At some point during the reading, the reader is struck by the sheer magnitude of occurrences that women do go through, and at other points you cannot help but pause and tell yourself that no, no person literally can go through all that monumental horror from a young age and come out sane and unbroken. No way, you tell yourself.
The Fertile Chick’s writing is light-handed and easy to breeze through, so super easy to breeze through that the pages fly by like light paper careening across a windy landscape, but be that as it may, her writing is also incredibly dark and disturbing. Exceedingly disturbing, I must add. Do you want severe, incredibly improbable physical abuse? It is splattered across Adanna like gory gore, spread literally with a gleeful sense of malice and perhaps a wish to make you question your love for your humanity and that of those around you. Do you want severe, terrifying sexual abuse that will leave your mouth agape in horror? Ah, pick up Adanna and dig your teeth in; you are in for a ride. Do you want to read about the total and complete breaking of the human spirit? Adanna would be happy to take you on that ride as well.
At all times extreme, at many times shocking, at some times cringy, Adanna is equal parts highly thrilling and also highly disturbing, you take your pick. But one thing I do guarantee is this: pick up The Fertile Chick’s Adanna and dig in, and I can assure you that you will be hard pressed to put it down until you have read the last page. That is, unless you have a severe aversion and viscerally negative reaction to traumatizing fiction.
But be that as it may, Adanna spotlights a lot of issues that is wrong with our society; of the dysfunction in family dynamics, of the abuse that is usually swept under the carpet because it is perpetrated by men against women.
Adanna is equal parts horrifying and also quite a teacher and a preacher: against “child” marriage, against certain vices particular to the Nigerian society.
A couple of things did leap out at me with Adanna; first was the eponymous title. Second was the hook.
I dived into this novel, not knowing what to expect from the read.
The Fertile Chick’s thriller offering, offers up more than just a thriller or a crime mystery; it offers up so much more. From the beginning, the tension between the characters is incredibly acidic and porous, diffused by only about just one chapter of Adanna’s life wherein she had a semblance of a normal life, a crush, even hopes for a future involving books and a thrilling, fulfilling career.
However, from there, this story swiftly went from 1000 to 100 to zero in terms of horror; the horror of what any Nigerian who’s lived in that clime would aptly term the “Female Nigerian Experience”. And from there the story kept going down the more, if that is actually possible. Reading Adanna from The Fertile Chick is just like chancing upon a train wreck, with mangled bodies, blood oozing from destroyed orifices, soaking into metal and sand; flies buzzing everywhere and around everything, the stench of human suffering suffusing the air so much so that you want to retch violently—and yet, you cannot look away. Try hard as you might, do the best you can, but you cannot look away. That is the apt description of the events of this novel; this rollercoaster ride that will take you through the gamut of love, sheer terror, abuse—domestic, physical, emotional, sexual and psychological—and the desolation of the human spirit.
Some readers have described The Fertile Chick as having a fertile imagination, or rather, a wild imagination. I do so agree, but for whatever reason, I cannot help but wonder why one person would choose to invest so much in horror and suffering for the characters she created; Adanna.
Nothing more aptly captures the reality of the Nigerian Woman—not all, but that does not mean that we should not have this narrative and a discourse around the patriarchy structure firmly in place within Nigeria to subjugate women at all times—whose fortune is tied to a man in her life, be it her father, her brother, her spouse, or even a third-party abuser.
At some point during the reading, the reader is struck by the sheer magnitude of occurrences that women do go through, and at other points you cannot help but pause and tell yourself that no, no person literally can go through all that monumental horror from a young age and come out sane and unbroken. No way, you tell yourself.
The Fertile Chick’s writing is light-handed and easy to breeze through, so super easy to breeze through that the pages fly by like light paper careening across a windy landscape, but be that as it may, her writing is also incredibly dark and disturbing. Exceedingly disturbing, I must add. Do you want severe, incredibly improbable physical abuse? It is splattered across Adanna like gory gore, spread literally with a gleeful sense of malice and perhaps a wish to make you question your love for your humanity and that of those around you. Do you want severe, terrifying sexual abuse that will leave your mouth agape in horror? Ah, pick up Adanna and dig your teeth in; you are in for a ride. Do you want to read about the total and complete breaking of the human spirit? Adanna would be happy to take you on that ride as well.
At all times extreme, at many times shocking, at some times cringy, Adanna is equal parts highly thrilling and also highly disturbing, you take your pick. But one thing I do guarantee is this: pick up The Fertile Chick’s Adanna and dig in, and I can assure you that you will be hard pressed to put it down until you have read the last page. That is, unless you have a severe aversion and viscerally negative reaction to traumatizing fiction.
But be that as it may, Adanna spotlights a lot of issues that is wrong with our society; of the dysfunction in family dynamics, of the abuse that is usually swept under the carpet because it is perpetrated by men against women.
Adanna is equal parts horrifying and also quite a teacher and a preacher: against “child” marriage, against certain vices particular to the Nigerian society.
May 29, 2025
Adanna's story is harrowing, raw and unforgettable - my heart broke for her over and over again. If your heart can take it, I highly recommend diving in. The author is such a gifted storyteller - I couldn't put it down.
October 28, 2025
I know Adesuwa is a good author, but with this book she proved herself to be a very good one. She toyed with my emotions so much that at a point I dropped my phone to cry really ugly tears. I felt anxious, I cried, I felt worried, and sometimes I wanted to hit most of the characters including Adanna.
This story is the saddest one I have read in recent times, but I am glad Adesuwa tried to give Adanna a happy ending
This story is the saddest one I have read in recent times, but I am glad Adesuwa tried to give Adanna a happy ending
January 7, 2024
My heart bled for Adanna. She had to be married off at such a young age, endured series of abuse from her husband and his son and was disgraced publicly countless times by them. My only wish while reading this book was that Adanna should have a happy ending, and that she did.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
March 10, 2024
Adana’s story is so tragic that I wished multiple times I could enter into the book and hurt some characters 😩😩😩😩. I was so happy with the ending of the book, glad the evil people met their Waterloo and the good ones found their happily ever after.
March 12, 2024
A gripping tale of love, betrayal, tragedy and heroism. It is a non-stop start to finish succession of events that will enthrall you and leave you unable to put the book down until the end. The use and translation of the Igbo language was both magical and ingenious. A must read.
December 15, 2024
I had no idea the book was this long. I enjoyed it, I think it should have been a two part series.
Adesuwa is a greater writer.
Adesuwa is a greater writer.
October 27, 2025
This is a Shelf Love 📚 selection.
The story is narrated in first person by Adanna, our protagonist, who, due to poverty is married off to a much older wealthy man and ends up going through some very terrible things. And I mean terrible 😬 While I understand that the author has a flair for the dramatic, this felt like trauma porn.
That said, the book was so well written that before I knew it, I had read the 600 pages in no time. Also, the main plot twist was done so well.... 10/10 on that one. Giving credit where it is due, the author is very talented.
I didn't like the protagonist because she thought her only value was in her beauty, yet she was academically gifted. I also didn't like how she didn't make much of an effort to save herself and was waiting for a man to save her 🤢🤢
Adanna is lucky that this was fiction so we got a happy ending at literally the last few pages of the book. But I'll take it!
Last thought.....I hope that the things that happened in this book don't happen in real life 🙏🏾
The story is narrated in first person by Adanna, our protagonist, who, due to poverty is married off to a much older wealthy man and ends up going through some very terrible things. And I mean terrible 😬 While I understand that the author has a flair for the dramatic, this felt like trauma porn.
That said, the book was so well written that before I knew it, I had read the 600 pages in no time. Also, the main plot twist was done so well.... 10/10 on that one. Giving credit where it is due, the author is very talented.
I didn't like the protagonist because she thought her only value was in her beauty, yet she was academically gifted. I also didn't like how she didn't make much of an effort to save herself and was waiting for a man to save her 🤢🤢
Adanna is lucky that this was fiction so we got a happy ending at literally the last few pages of the book. But I'll take it!
Last thought.....I hope that the things that happened in this book don't happen in real life 🙏🏾
October 18, 2024
An emotional and thought-provoking story about resilience and personal growth. Nwokedi’s prose is evocative and deeply impactful.
November 24, 2024
I enjoyed this book, there were multiple places in this book that brought me to tears.
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January 23, 2025Sucks
January 27, 2025
An emotional and thought-provoking story about resilience and personal growth. Nwokedi’s prose is evocative and deeply impactful.
May 28, 2025
* This reader was too stunned to speak*
October 30, 2025
Wow. Just wow. I need time to recover 💀
WTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF (ps: if anyone deserves the world, it’s Adanna)
WTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF (ps: if anyone deserves the world, it’s Adanna)
October 30, 2024
I am still infuriated . This book made me mad
September 22, 2025
3.5 ⭐️
Horrific tale (scarier than The Shining actually), yet I couldn’t look away
Horrific tale (scarier than The Shining actually), yet I couldn’t look away
September 4, 2025
TW: incest, rape, death, murder, grief, resentment, abortion basically every trigger you can think of is here.
Adesuwa O’man Nwokedi can definitely write. My issue with the book is that it’s
unnecessarily long with way too many twists and turns. That said, it’s a page-turner and extremely engaging.
I found myself frustrated with Adanna so many times because of her childishness and how easily she fell for every man she met but later I understood it was the trauma, the lack of validation, that shaped her.
Her father? A coward who died too soon, and I hated him for that.
I always knew Anayo was a good man and would come back to apologize.
Akanna and Uzochi got exactly what they deserved.
Chief, on the other hand, died far too easily. I wanted him to suffer. That man was twisted a coward with a Jezebel spirit. Disgusting.
Imagine: your mother despises the love of your life who dies, you then sleep with your maid while her sick husband is literally watching, impregnate her, and then sexually abuse your own daughter? Your jealous son sexually abuses your wife and you look away and accuse her of infidelity while you also have your way with her. Sick and beyond twisted.
At least Naeto and Adanna got their happy ending.
And I was right about Uzochi all along a witch through and through. The rollercoaster of this book is insane. The wildest part? Finding out she killed Chief.
May Chief never rest in peace.
Adesuwa O’man Nwokedi can definitely write. My issue with the book is that it’s
unnecessarily long with way too many twists and turns. That said, it’s a page-turner and extremely engaging.
I found myself frustrated with Adanna so many times because of her childishness and how easily she fell for every man she met but later I understood it was the trauma, the lack of validation, that shaped her.
Her father? A coward who died too soon, and I hated him for that.
I always knew Anayo was a good man and would come back to apologize.
Akanna and Uzochi got exactly what they deserved.
Chief, on the other hand, died far too easily. I wanted him to suffer. That man was twisted a coward with a Jezebel spirit. Disgusting.
Imagine: your mother despises the love of your life who dies, you then sleep with your maid while her sick husband is literally watching, impregnate her, and then sexually abuse your own daughter? Your jealous son sexually abuses your wife and you look away and accuse her of infidelity while you also have your way with her. Sick and beyond twisted.
At least Naeto and Adanna got their happy ending.
And I was right about Uzochi all along a witch through and through. The rollercoaster of this book is insane. The wildest part? Finding out she killed Chief.
May Chief never rest in peace.
September 28, 2024
I refuse to speak !
February 22, 2025
The novel was so full of tragedy that
I couldn't even feel the small romance in it...
I found it unrealistic that Adanna fell in love, so soon after all the trauma she went through
I couldn't even feel the small romance in it...
I found it unrealistic that Adanna fell in love, so soon after all the trauma she went through
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
September 9, 2024
ABSOLUTELY WRECKED ME OMG!!!
THE END??? PLOT TWIST AFTER PLOT AFTER PLOT TWIST!
also akanna??? the DEVIL HIMSELF! even in his old age he was evil incarnate honestly good ending for him. he TRAUMATIZED me
THE END??? PLOT TWIST AFTER PLOT AFTER PLOT TWIST!
also akanna??? the DEVIL HIMSELF! even in his old age he was evil incarnate honestly good ending for him. he TRAUMATIZED me
April 23, 2025
My First Ever Book Review – Because What Did I Just Read?
This book is utterly outrageous. I don’t usually write reviews, but this one? I had to. The amount of trauma dumping in these pages is mind-boggling. It felt like the author was on a mission to cram in as much suffering as humanly possible, like there was a trauma quota to fill.
The characters are painfully shallow. Adanna, the main girl, is basically pretty and clueless. The husband/chief? I couldn’t tell you a single defining thing about him. His son Akanna is a psychotic bully with no depth. And then there’s Anayo, the love interest, apparently. She “fell in love” with him after what... a conversation and a half?
Now to the worst part: the sexual assault scenes. They’re not just disturbing...they’re excessive to the point of being exploitative. Why did he rape her after the abortion? How did that contribute to the plot? That scene alone made me question the author’s intent. It felt unnecessary, gratuitous, and deeply unsettling.
I’m honestly mad I wasted two hours on this.
And no, I didn’t finish it. I’m not planning to either.
This book is utterly outrageous. I don’t usually write reviews, but this one? I had to. The amount of trauma dumping in these pages is mind-boggling. It felt like the author was on a mission to cram in as much suffering as humanly possible, like there was a trauma quota to fill.
The characters are painfully shallow. Adanna, the main girl, is basically pretty and clueless. The husband/chief? I couldn’t tell you a single defining thing about him. His son Akanna is a psychotic bully with no depth. And then there’s Anayo, the love interest, apparently. She “fell in love” with him after what... a conversation and a half?
Now to the worst part: the sexual assault scenes. They’re not just disturbing...they’re excessive to the point of being exploitative. Why did he rape her after the abortion? How did that contribute to the plot? That scene alone made me question the author’s intent. It felt unnecessary, gratuitous, and deeply unsettling.
I’m honestly mad I wasted two hours on this.
And no, I didn’t finish it. I’m not planning to either.
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