By Megan Thomas
A brilliant second novel by Ayòbámi Adébáyò – if you need me, I’ll be reading her first novel.
This book took me really long to read initially, but as soon as I was on holiday I zoomed through the rest. This isn’t necessarily something surprising – everyone reads more on holiday – but perhaps it suggests that it is better consumed when you can give it your full attention. Some books I can dip in and out of, but this baby needed me undistracted.
I reviewed it for Buzz Magazine, which you can read in full here. Snippet below.
“With books that grapple with the complexity of particularly patriarchal societies such as this, it can sometimes fall on the author to offer a judgment or commentary of that which is being depicted – it can feel like the author is made to shoulder the burden of moral contextualisation for an international audience. While Adébáyò does not necessarily reject this in A Spell Of Good Things, her writing suggests that she has not felt the pressure to write a novel which justifies itself, but rather allows the reader to absorb the experiences of her characters and come to their own conclusions. This is how people experience the world, she says without caveat.”
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