etienne02 's review for:

Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor
2.0

That was bad! Another one where I don't get the hype. Maybe I"m just too old for this kind of story. I find it so cheesy and nothing happen. The contemporary gets way too much place versus the fantasy/magical element in my opinion. I was expecting way more. I'm also tired of author building story out of diversity, diversity should be present don't get me wrong, but it should be in the story, include, not build upon, because when build on it, it look cheap, force and often seem unrealistic like someone push it deep in our throat. When it's smoothly include and part of the story, we get the experience, we think about it, we see it evolve and we get an overall better experience. This book was clearly not written for me, but I did give it a try and didn't like it.