I just have lost what I loved about the first books I read from Emezi. The first few chapters just felt so overwritten, like endless weird metaphors and sentences that made me feel overly conscious of myself reading a book, if that makes sense. It read like it was trying really hard to be a book that would win an award, and honestly the content was not engaging enough for me to feel that was worth it. Maybe I’ll come back to this  later when I’m in a better mood but for now… eh.