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Oyinkan Braithwaite, Oyinkan Braithwaite: My Sister, the Serial Killer (2018) 4 stars

When Korede's dinner is interrupted one night by a distress call from her sister, Ayoola, …

Review of 'My Sister, the Serial Killer' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

Fast paced, attention grabbing read. I appreciate the fact that the title leads you to believe this will be a crime novel when in fact it isn’t really about that at all. For the majority of the book, I felt that all of the characters were too one-dimensional. One sister, the ugly duckling with integrity and a moral compass, the other one the opposite—beautiful and psychopathic. However, in the end, the author does offer the main character a bit more complexity and you wonder if she, the “good” sister, might be a little evil, too.

The social critiques offered in this book are pretty much as unnuanced as the characters: people are shallow; women are often seen as mere accessories, appreciated only for their looks and nothing else; and most men suck—even the ones that seem cool at first. I tend to agree with most of these assessments to some extent, so it didn’t bother me and all in all, I was entertained by this read.