Mel (Epic Reading)’s Reviews > Death of the Author > Status Update

I’m having a hard time aligning with our leading lady. I know the point Nnedi is making here but I’m just finding her MC to be a bit too much. Her selfishness seems to go to a level that I find uncomfortable.

Swapped to the audio of this one for a bit. I love the just there accents of our readers. Not too harsh to make it hard to understand (Nigerian accents can be rough when thick!) but more than enough there to note.
I told my South African co-worker who has a gorgeous accent she should absolutely keep rolling her R’s as she struggled to loose her accent. Just like that situation, I love the roll here too.

Little foreshadows and hints of what’s to come…

”I can’t be normal, so I’ll be something else.”
The contemporary story is starting to pull me in.
This line is absolutely wonderful. Most of us can’t be ‘normal’ so we need to be the ‘something else’. I’m proud to say I’m ’something else’ and that I get to develop most of that narrative and definition.

I just want to read the ‘fictional’ (it’s all fictional but you know what I mean) robot story. I’m far less interested in the contemporary story going on here (so far).

Interesting… the two different sister’s perspectives will change the story significantly I suspect.