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My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
3.0

Ayoola summons me with these words—Korede, I killed him.

Rating: 3.5 stars

I picked this up after an event at the Cheltenham Literature festival where we got to hear Oyinkan speak about her debut. The way she described it fascinated me so I picked up a copy on the spot and got to it as soon as I could so that I could talk about it with my work colleague who'd already read it. It wasn't hard to do. I sped through this, gripped from the first page to the last, caught up in fast-paced action and gloriously gloriously twisty plot. I love that this was so character-driven, because it meant that I was really invested in Korede's story and what she was going to do next in this horrible, difficult situation.