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Book Review: Spirits Come from Water Author: Ehime Ora 🇳🇬🇺🇸 Type of work (Genre): nonfiction Number of pages: 213 Own or Borrowed: own, ebook purchased from Amazon Overall Impressions : ever since I left Christianity as a belief system, I’ve been curious to learn more about various African Traditional Religions and belief systems. I’ve been following Ehime Ora on social media for a while now and connected to her various posts on the topic. She’s an Ifa priestess. So

Book Review: Fated to Flame Author: S. A. Gladden 🇺🇸 Type of work (Genre): Novel (fantasy) Number of pages: 344 Own or Borrowed: own, purchased from a local US bookshop that delivered through Bookshop.org Overall Impressions: I enjoyed this fantasy story that had a Black woman as the protagonist. Too often, there is this erasure of Black peoples from existing and existing quite prominently in fantasy stories. I love that Gladden flipped that on its head by giving us an

Book Review: A Very Gidi Christmas Author: Tomilola Coco Adeyemo 🇳🇬 Type of work (Genre): Novel Number of pages: 317 Own or Borrowed: own, purchased from The Word Playce Overall Impressions: in the end, I had mixed feelings about this book. It started out really great and set my expectations quite high. However, after the first few chapters, it started to read more like a Nollywood script than a novel. Given the author’s background in Nollywood, it wasn’t surprising. Di