My Sister, the Serial Killer

"Satire meets slasher in this short, darkly funny hand grenade of a novel about a Nigerian woman whose younger sister has a very inconvenient habit of killing her boyfriends. "Femi makes three, you know. Three and they label you a serial killer." Korede is bitter. How could she not be? Her sister, Ayoola, is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola's third boyfriend in a row is dead. Korede's practicality is the sisters' saving grace. She knows the best solutions for cleaning blood, the …

Paperback, 256 pages

Published Oct. 3, 2019 by Atlantic Books.

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978-1-78649-598-3
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This book was frustrating to me.

The story was ok. The premise was interesting. But there were so many moments that I was hoping I could shake some sense through the book. I get familiar pressures to basically sacrifice yourself for your family and everything, I really do. But Korede would literally sit there and let her sister do something that would be hurtful and cause issues and not say anything about it and then get mad because Ayoola was not stopping it. She put herself into situations by not standing up for herself at all and they would get mad that she was in the situation and start lashing out at people outside of her family.

It wasn't horrible, it just frustrated me enough that I couldn't care about the characters. At least it was a short read, though.