Category Archives: Book Reviews

IntroductionA Man Called Ove is the debut of renowned author Frederik Backman. It tells the story of a manwhose name is Ove. Ove is an ordinary man like anyone else is, but he’s also special like anyoneelse is. Frederik explores human emotions so deeply that he examines the root, the branches and eventhe fruits of […]

Jasmine Warga’s My Heart and Other Black Holes is a debut Young Adult novel first published in 2015 by HarperCollins. The novel revolves around the life of Aysel Seran, a sixteen-year-old Turkish-American girl living in Kentucky, United |States of America. Aysel (pronounced as Uh-zel) is forced to live the life of an outcast after her father is sent to prison for murdering her […]

“She’d discovered that only the white men talked of “black magic.” As though magic had acolour.”Of course, magic has a colour – it is the thought process of Yaa Gyasi in delivering thishistorical fiction novel, the intentionality in the title of the book, and the emancipation fromshackles to freedom. The Yorubas will say, “omi ni’eyan […]

We are excited to announce that we are currently accepting submissions for book reviews and author interviews. We’re looking for fun, creative, and analytical pieces that will engage our readers. Feel free to play around with your writing style and be as witty or as creative as you like. Please read the following guidelines carefully […]