I really enjoyed the first book I read by Atta (Everything Good Will Come) so I was a bit disappointed that I wasn’t as emotionally attached to The Bead Collector. I appreciated the political backdrop, set in Lagos as the country approaches a countercoup in 1976, and Atta deftly outlines the way Nigerians felt about their own country at this time. But I wasn’t really invested in the story itself. There’s a lot of drama and it’s sort of a mish mash of soap opera and political drama!

My copy was gifted by the publisher in exchange for an honest review