A review by theromantasynerd
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

dark fast-paced

3.0

🧀 β€œπ‘»π’‰π’† π’Žπ’π’”π’• π’π’π’—π’Šπ’π’ˆ 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 π’“π’†π’π’‚π’•π’Šπ’—π’†π’” π’„π’π’Žπ’Žπ’Šπ’• π’Žπ’–π’“π’…π’†π’“ π’˜π’Šπ’•π’‰ π’”π’Žπ’Šπ’π’†π’” 𝒐𝒏 π’•π’‰π’†π’Šπ’“ 𝒇𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒔. π‘»π’‰π’†π’š 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒄𝒆 𝒖𝒔 𝒕𝒐 π’…π’†π’”π’•π’“π’π’š 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏 π’˜π’† π’“π’†π’‚π’π’π’š 𝒂𝒓𝒆: 𝒂 𝒔𝒖𝒃𝒕𝒍𝒆 π’Œπ’Šπ’π’… 𝒐𝒇 π’Žπ’–π’“π’…π’†π’“.”

🧀 β€˜My Sister, the Serial Killer’ by Oyinkan Braithwaite 

🧀 An incredibly dark, smart, sarcastic and sardonic super-quick debut thriller.

🧀 Summary:

The book follows Korede, a Nigerian nurse, who cleans up after her sister, Ayoola, murders her boyfriends, apparently out of self-defence. Ayoola is the beautiful serial killer, and Korede, the resentful, yearning enabler. Korede never turns her sister into the police in fear of what it might do to her family… until Ayoola starts dating a doctor Korede works with. Korede is infatuated with him, and doesn’t want to see him end up dead.

🧀 Review:

The book jumps straight into the plot, which was great and also why it’s only under 250 pages. It was a provocative, unique, mind-bending and hilarious crime story with some remarkable character-building.

I loved the riveting, fast pace and the dark sense of sarcastic humor. The book makes us question so many important things in our lives such as family, sisterhood and also social media.

There’s just about enough information for the readers to draw their own opinions about the characters and to form their own ideas about how the story might endβ€”which, for me, wasn’t how I expected!