It Sounded Better In My Head - When her two best friends start dating, Natalie is suddenly a third wheel, but she’s also taken aback because she kind of thought she and Zach would always end up together. On top of that, her parents are getting divorced and seem to be taking it too well. The story follows Natalie trying to work through everything that seems to be falling apart and figuring out how to enjoy her final high school year without blowing up her life any further.
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Black Sunday- when their parents abandon them with their grandmother in search of different lives, they each have to find their own way to cope and create their own lives. This story follows each child in alternating chapters till they grow up. It’s set in a fictional but realistic Lagos.
A Particular Kind of Black Man- When Tunde’s mum leaves he and his brother in America in a midwestern town, it begins and adventure that includes moving every couple of months and starting over. Tunde starts to lose grasp on reality, often living a thought and remembering things that never happened. As he loses grip on his thoughts and memories, he decides to take a trip to Nigeria to visit his mother who suffered from mental health issues as well. The book read like a memoir and was a different kind of storytelling. Like The Millions Lives of Neena Gill, it puts you in the mind of Tunde, which means you start to doubt everything in the story too.
The Right Swipe- when Rhiannon runs into the guy that ghosted her at an app event, her first instinct is to put her guard up and ignore everything he has to say. Their work for rival dating apps throws them together and soon, she’s willing to accept that he’s more than the jerk she assumed him to be. It wasn’t as engaging as I expected because it tried to address too many issues in sub plots and be as diverse as possible which just ended up distracting from the romance. However, it was still an enjoyable read.