Book Review
My Sister, the Serial Killer
Author Oyinkan Braithwaite
Atlantic Books - www.atlantic-books.co.uk
The cover grabs me. The woman on the cover with head scarf and dark glasses seems to issue a warning or maybe it's the title ‘My Sister, The Serial Killer’ that is more threatening. This is another book that was on Theakestons Old Peculier Crime Writers Award List. Albeit, only on the long one and it did not make it into the final six. It was also long listed for The Booker Prize, 2019 and shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, also 2019. The rear cover is littered with superlatives and the feel of the book is great.
What about the story. It's both simple and complex. The simple bit is ‘the killing’ and the complex part is about a family and, more interestingly of the relationship between two sisters Ayoola and her older sibling Korede. To find out out what really goes on, you will have to read it.
I loved it. It's an ‘easy read’, the pages just fly by, but I don't mean that in any critical sense or any derogatory sense. It was fun almost all the way through if you don't take into account the dead!
Relationships are sensitively dealt with and the issue of family life in Nigeria handled in the same way.
It was so different to many crime story reads and set in a different country too. Enjoyable and so pick it up, savour the texture of the cover, black and dark and read on.
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