Gifted by the publisher

Spanning a weekend following 5 interconnected individuals navigating the elite Nigerian underbelly, ROT shows how money, power, and sex corrupt people via raw and intimate storytelling. I was sucked into the story immediately while yelling for each of the characters to stop making bad decisions. One of the most fascinating aspects of this story is the allusion to how we're all a little rotten inside, reflecting each character's decisions in saving vs sacrificing themselves. While I'm still trying to figure out how to interpret the story as a whole and am uncertain if there is a more prominent theme I missed, I'd love to see ROT on screen. I can see this lust and greed-filled story as the perfect bingable HBO series.

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initial thoughts:

I’m not quite sure what the author is trying to say in this novel yet