Page Count: 432
Average Rating: 3.75
This one just wasn’t for me. It had some cool sci-fi elements: it takes place in future Nigeria and there’s psychics, a mysterious dome, and a lot of time jumping back and forth, and some aliens and zombie-like creatures. But something about it didn’t connect with me.
Maybe it’s that it felt very “male†to me, which isn’t bad, but just wasn’t for me. There’s a lot of talk of erections and orgasms and looking at women as objects and I don’t know that any of it added anything to the story. Kaaro also was hard for me to connect to - he was a jerk and (as his file says) a casual misogynist. A lot of the descriptions were gross but not in a fun or horrific way.
I get why people loved this one, but I won’t be continuing on - I probably wouldn’t have finished if it weren’t a bookclub pick.
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