V’s Reviews > Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold > Status Update

Weak ass!


I’m literally rooting against this relationship. This friends to lovers needs to be friends to strangers cause he don’t care enough for me.

Tell tell tell and never show show show. How many “they’re friends and it’s platonic, but surprise he’s been captured by her from the first moment and she wants him too” are left in this book?

Idk if it’s me or this book but this has been a drag; the first 6 stories have just felt so similar that reading the one after the other feels repetitive & story 7 doesn’t feel promising. I loved each one individually but this book seems like the kind you savor bit by bit rather than all at once. I also haven’t been super focused or engrossed in reading in the last 9 months, switching to the audiobook may help.

Gone head and fuck up his life, girl; he don’t deserve you!

“…it was them who were corrupt and would rob the poor and suppress the powerless to gain control. The wealth of the state was contingent on suffering and imprisonment.”

So I’m looking up the myths/inspirations AFTER reading the short story and the 2nd story masterfully incorporates elements of the original. I thought it was odd how she kept mentioning that specific number, thought tangentially about where I heard it before, then immediately dismissed it as coincidence 😄

I loved how well Babalola pens intensity into her character’s POVs. It’s palpable through the page. I will say story 2’s ending left me needing more; it’s felt like things were maybe kept vague to focus on the love story, but I still wanted to know the details.

I’m concerned abut why she stopped counting and is talking in the past tense 🫣🫣🫣

I love that Oșun is not perfect nor does she strive to be; she simply just is—discerning, grace filled, sharp-minded power itself.

As for the story, I love that the ending captures allowing yourself to sit in romantic reverence of another without diminishing who they are or the depth of how you feel; it seems instinctual to fawn, freeze, run away, or fight, but they just sit in it. I wish this was an entire book!

The intro really resonates with me and how I view finding and being with someone who sees me, loves me, respects me, and exists in the same plane that I do.