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A review by zombiezami
War Girls by Tochi Onyebuchi
adventurous
dark
emotional
informative
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
4.25
I read this for a book club. It was hard for me to get into, but I did eventually get there. The part I liked best about this book was the worldbuilding. I especially enjoyed the author's approach to imagining tech that really doesn't work the way you want it to, or that you have to McGyver to make useful, or that wasn't made with you in mind. Even in other dystopias involving inadequate technology, I feel that Onyebuchi's approach is uniquely nuanced.
All of the big emotional inflections in the book definitely hit, for example, "Chinelo's death, Agu's death, finding out that Onyii killed Ify's mother and lied about where she came from . Even so, there were a lot of characters, in my opinion, and I kept forgetting who was who.
All of the big emotional inflections in the book definitely hit, for example, "
Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Self harm, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, and War
Moderate: Cancer, Drug abuse, Drug use, Racial slurs, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Islamophobia, Religious bigotry, and Alcohol
Minor: Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Sexism, and Colonisation