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Sometimes I think my inability to enjoy perfectly fine genre fiction is due to some kind of internalized snobbery (which might be!) but then I find pieces like this, which are wonderfully written on top of being just pure fun and I am reminded that I am, indeed, capable to enjoy a good thriller. The author just has to know how to write

Whoever has written the synopsis of this book is a criminal because I’m 170 pages into it and there is no murder to mystery over. I’m loving it, but the target audience has been missed I fear

I’m convinced this book has such a low rating because most people didn’t understand a word of what Soyinka was writing.

First chapter: religious cult vibes. Second chapter: scathing political satire. It should also be a murder mystery. If this doesn’t become one of my favorite books of all time I’ll be. So sad.

Each chapter is a montage of political observation.

Okay so this will be difficult to read. I will give it 100 pages to get me into it. Meanwhile it sort of reads like (especially the dialogue) it should be a play.

still plugging along only because the uw alumni book club gave me like three months to read this book, so i might take all three before i deicide to fully dnf...tbd

Idk if I can do this chat we might be dnfing