MY FEBRUARY BOOK REVIEW

1. THE SWEETEST REMEDY by Jane Igharo.
   A book about parental love in diaspora as I'd call it. The Jolade family and Hannah.
   Imagine living all your life in Canada without a physical but a financially responsible father figure, just to be called one day to hear your father is dead and you are to attend the burial in Nigeria. Torn between if the family will love her or not and if her new found love will stand the test of the brouhaha.
   Will sweet and delicate Hannah survive?
   I rate it a 4⭐

1. BROKEN by Fatima Bala.
   This book is about Fa'iza and Ahmad; Two lovers with different ideologies. Fa'iza, the good girl from a religious home, and well, Ahmad is just Ahmad.😁 I'm squealing delightedly as I type this and as I remember every part of the story.
   When the confusion arose that they couldn't get married because they were milk siblings after every preparation and even after all the things they'd done, I gasped.
   Ahmad, oh Ahmad. His kind of love rarely exists in our world today. The way he valued communication and Fa'iza's love language, the healthy relationship he held onto, his reasoning, patience and resilience in finding and fighting for the truth just to be with the woman he loves.
   Lastly, this statement stood out for me;
   "Any man can love you, but will that love remain on the days you're difficult to love?"
   I rate it a 5⭐ of course!

1. GOD IS FOR THE ALCOHOLIC by Jerry Dunn.
   I picked this book from my dad's archive.
   I read it particularly because of 1 person in my life.
   Anyway, the book highlights;

• The alcohol,
• The alcoholic,
• Steps toward alcoholism,
• The stages of being an alcoholic,
• The ways to approach the problem,
• Who is to blame,
• The consequences and so on.

I learnt so much and I can say that the tightness I usually used to feel when this topic is brought up is gone to some extent. I have learnt to approach it from a different angle.
Even though it's an old book.
I rate it a 5⭐

1. BLACK GIRLS MUST DIE EXHAUSTED by Jayne Allen.
   I'd say this book is more about highlighting the black race and profiling/racism.
   The book is about Tabitha, a young black woman who faced traumas of separated parents, having a pigmented skin, failed relationships (with an unintentional man), almost dead ovaries and fighting for her way to the top in her career.
   She was always faced with the need to fight, fight through it all and the only person who had a full listening ear to her (her grandmother) had to die to make matters worse.
   I don't know but I kinda felt hit reading this one.
   I rate it a 4⭐

1. DAUGHTERS WHO WALKED THIS PATH by Yejide Kilanko.
   Talk about trauma in a book!
   Morayo, very intelligent young innocent girl had to stand face to face with the ugly reality of being defiled and raped continuously by her older cousin at a young age till she lost her first pregnancy, under her parents roof. Her mother was not even so concerned, Ahh!
   The only person she could talk the trauma through with was her eldest cousin, Morenike who had gone through a similar ordeal and who later died of breast cancer.
   To be honest, I was faced with a surge of different emotions as I read this one. Too many triggers.
   It ended well though.
   I rate it a 4.5⭐

1. THE BLESSED GIRL by Angela Makholwa.
   This book is about a high class side chick (blessee) who slept with different men including her aunty's husband for money and the finest things of life.
   The itsy bitsy grits of being a side chick are in this book I tell you😂
   She decides to change for the better and transform her life for her son whom she'd neglected for a failed marriage and 'minister of enjoyment' life.
   I rate it a 4⭐

1. BETTER NEVER THAN LATE by Chika Unigwe.
   To be honest, I didn't really understand this book but from what I could grasp, it is about 5 different families. 3 couples, 1 player and his white wife and 1 daughter and mother.
   All of them migrated to Belgium to start afresh because of diverse reasons ranging from tragedies to seeking for better life.
   Their lives and stories were a bit complicated for me. The book sev is complicated.
   I rate it a 3⭐

1. WOMAN EVOLVE by Sarah Jakes Robert.
   Confession time🔔
   I stopped reading this book halfway last year because the words were too personal for me and I just wasn't ready to deal, lol.
   It felt like Sarah saw me even without knowing I exist.
   I promise you, it had to take the leading of the Holy Spirit and God sending Absty Daniels and Efe Johnson my way to continue reading.
   The experience is personal so if you want to find out, I'd say you read it too.
   5⭐ of course!

1. GOD, MICHEAL AND ME by Rosemary Okafor.
   This love story shaaaa!
   First of all, church guys are not innocent.😂 Anyone who told you so is pulling your legs. They understand romance at a level most men outside the church don't. Do not be deceived 😂
   Why do you think women like God fearing men?
   They know and fear God, know how to love and also know how to treat a woman. (I'm talking genuine lovers of God by the way).
   Imagine a man that listens to God and asks Him how to treat you right.
   Micheal and Martha's love with God spearheading.
   I loveet!
   I rate it a 4.5⭐

1. THE SMART MONEY TRIBE by Arese Ugwu.
   This book makes me do things.
   Anyway, it's personal and I shouldn't be telling you just yet.
   I'd advise you start with "The smart money woman" to understand the whole thing.
   And I'd highly recommend the book in place of the series on YouTube. You'll learn more that way.
   Arese Ugwu on this one!
   5⭐ baby!

See you in March.😘