Janna Onyemaobi

You can purchase books from rovingheights with the link below  https://rhbooks.com.ng/?ap_id=Jannaonyemaobi Welcome back! It has been like forever since I uploaded a review and I apologize for that. Anyways, I am back now and today I will be reviewing a book titled an ember in the ashes.  It is the first book in the book series of 4. It is a YA fantasy, inspired by the Ancient Rome.  The story follows Laia of Serra, Elias Veturius and Helene Aquilla. Three teens bounded by pain and suffering, striving to do everything they believe is right in order to survive and escape their present.  Laia is trying to rescue her brother who has been captured by the empire. Elias is a mask (ie a soilder) in Serra but he does not like the life he is living, he wants to be free. Helene Aquilla is also a mask and she is Elias’ bestfriend. They have been together since childhood.   Laia meets Elias at the commandant house where she works as a slave and also as a spy. The commandant...

Welcome back 😃. I will be reviewing the smart money woman and the smart money tribe. You can purchase both books from rovingheights with the link below. https://rhbooks.com.ng?ap_id=Jannaonyemaobi The smart money woman is the first book and it was published in 2016, while the smart money tribe is the second book and it was published in 2019. The first book focuses mainly on Zuri and her journey to financial freedom. We watch Zuri progress from being broke to being intentional about her finances and how the people around her influences her financial decisions. A lot of things were pointed out in this book; different investments plans, turning your network into your net worth, knowing what your bring to the table and how to leverage on it.  The author also talks about putting yourself out there. The second book; the smart money tribe focuses on the friendship and being intentional about each others financial growth. Whether you like it or not, the people in your close circle goe...

Dear Readers, Happy new year and welcome back. I will be reviewing On black sisters' street by Chika Unigwe. You can purchase this book from Rovingheights with the link below. https://rhbooks.com.ng/?ap_id=Jannaonyemaobi This is a story of four very different women who comes from different background but all have one person in common (Dele), he is the man that introduced them to the lives they are currently living. These women are sex workers in Belgium and they believe that someday  they can make enough money to finally live the life of their dreams. Everything is fine until one of them is reported dead. This incident leads to a lot of unraveling and bringing each other into each others personal lives and would eventually lead to a friendship that neither of them thought they would have. This book deals with fear, love, displacement, sexual abuse, rape, extortion, tribal based discrimination, poverty etc. All four women (Sisi, Ama, Efe and Joyce) have suffered and they are wi...

https://rhbooks.com.ng/?ap_id=Jannaonyemaobi You can purchase Silver sparrow from Rovingheights with the link above. This is a story about two families both sharing the same father and husband; James Witherspoon. James gets married at age 15 after getting Laverne who was 14 at the time pregnant. Laverne loses the baby but stays married to James. A decade later, she gives birth to a daughter named Chaurisse but unknown to Laverne and Chaurisse, James has another wife named Gwen and another daughter named Dana. These are James’ secret family. James’ secret family knows about Laverne and Chaurisse. Writing style: This book is divided into two parts. The first part is told from Dana’s (the illegitimate daughter) point of view while the second part of the book is told from Chaurisse’s (the legitimate daughter) point of view. It is written in the first person narrative and we follow the lives of these girls as they grow up and how their lives affect one another without being aware of it. If...

https://rhbooks.com.ng/?ap_id=Jannaonyemaobi You can purchase this book from Rovingheights with the link above. His only wife is set in Ghana and it follows the story of a young seamstress, Afi who finds herself in an arranged marriage to the son of her family’s benefactor, Aunty. Aunty meets with Olivia (Afi’s mother) and proposes the marriage to her because she does not like Eli (Aunty’s son) current partner Muna. Muna is a Liberian woman who does not bend to Aunty’s wishes. Olivia can never really say no to Aunty because she has been the one helping her since her husband died. The book starts off with the traditional wedding of Afi and Eli. Eli is absent so his brother stands in for him as the groom. To me, this was the first red flag in the marriage because I don’t understand why a groom would miss his own wedding because of a business trip. After the wedding, Afi finds out that her marital life is not how she envisioned it to be and this leads her to a journey of self discovery. I...

https://rhbooks.com.ng/?ap_id=Jannaonyemaobi You can purchase this book from Rovingheights with the link above. The vanishing half is a story that centers on identical twin sisters   set between 1940s to 1990s.  Desiree and Stella both light skinned are born and raised in a town filled with light skinned people. They take different paths as teenagers after running away from their home town. One lives as a black woman and the other lives as a white woman.  We also follow the lives of their daughters, Jude and Kennedy. Jude is dark skinned and grows up as a black woman who has dreams of getting into medical school, she also struggles with self acceptance while Kennedy grows up as a white woman from a rich home who enjoys acting. There are so many layers in this book and I love that so many topics were touched; colorism, racism, domestic violence, parenting, relationships, self love etc. It is written in the third person narrative. I was a bit bored while reading it, don’t g...

https://rhbooks.com.ng/?ap_id=Jannaonyemaobi You can purchase Such a fun age from Rovingheights with the link above. Such a fun age is an adult fiction that focuses around three characters, Emira, Alix and Kelley. Emira works as a babysitter for Alix while Kelley is Emira’s boyfriend. The book opens with Emira taking Briar (Alix’s daughter) to a late night grocery store where she is being harassed and accused of kidnapping. Kelley witnesses this event and records it on his phone, this eventually leads to Kelley meeting Emira. The story spins off from there. Emira is black, Alix and Kelley are both white people that feel they need to be nice to black people to get validation or something (that’s how I interpreted their actions). It is written in the third person narrative and it addresses race, class, privilege and micro aggression. I saw Queenie in this book.  The scene where she is trying to find herself, how she manages interracial relationships and the influences of her friends ...