Thank you to NetGalley for providing me an ARC of this audiobook for an honest review. All opinions are my own.

I think this book will find an audience who will love and adore it, but that audience just wasn't me. The description of this book really intrigued me, especially because I have enjoyed the few magical realism books I have read so far and wanted to hear about some Nigerian mythology. However, upon reading Dazzling, the narrative mostly fell flat for me.

I was incredibly lost by the timing of everything in the story. One moment Ozoemena was at boarding school, the next she was at home arguing with her sister. It made me so unsure of when everything occurred and what the order of events in her life was. I also wish I knew how the timelines between Treasure and Ozoemena were intersecting, but the only information the reader received about this was the "Then" and "Now" at the beginning of the chapters.

I was also disappointed that so much of Ozoemena's story dealt with the ins and outs of boarding school life, rather than her journey as a Leopard. I wanted to hear more about her traveling to different worlds and looking for her tether, rather than how she felt about school.

In contrast, I greatly enjoyed Treasure's story, and I was able to follow her narrative with much more ease and enjoyment than I was with Ozoemena's.

All this being said, the writing style was beautiful, and I think that plenty of other readers will not have the same hangups about the timeline or the everyday details that I did.

The narration was also STELLAR. I enjoyed that both girls had distinct voices and that the narrators (Precious Mustapha and Tara Tijani) put so much emotion into each of their narratives. I would love to listen to more books narrated by these women!