Half of a Yellow Sun
Honestly this book is so bad that it put me off reading for a long time, as you can guess by my lack of posts. I only got 200 pages through and I never abandon books usually but this was horrible on another scale. Really wouldn't even recommend it to my greatest enemy. I would have given this book half a star or zero stars if it wasn't written well and had a good use of language and descriptive elements.
The story follows three people: Ugwu, a young servant boy, Olanna, a scholarly woman who is romantically involved with Ugwu's master. Ugwu is somewhat attracted to Olanna and his fantasies of her are quite disturbing seeing as he's very young and they often involve him sucking on chicken bones whilst pretending he's kissing her. Finally, the third character is Richard, an Englishman in Nigeria with the intention of writing about he country. He is seeing Olanna's sister, Katiene (if I've spelt her name correctly. Excuse me, it's been a while).
I will try and read this book again in the future because I believe in second chances, but honestly I wouldn't recommend you put yourself through reading this. I've gone on about how much I hate this book but realise I haven't offered any reasons as to why I hate it so much. Its basic flaw is that nothing happens. Simple as that. Hours spent reading 200 pages and I want those hours back, quite frankly.
