Love in Colour
Ratings11
Average rating3.6
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Ratings11
Average rating3.6
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER As seen on BBC2 Between the Covers 'Beautifully written and full of joy. Bolu Babalola is a star.' Meg Cabot 'Here is love as freedom, love as deep joy. Romance will never be dead, as long as Bolu is writing it.' Jessie Burton Bolu Babalola finds the most beautiful love stories from history and mythology and rewrites them with incredible new detail and vivacity in this debut collection. Focusing on the magical folktales of West Africa, Babalola also reimagines iconic Greek myths, ancient legends from the Middle East, and stories from countries that no longer exist in our world. A high-born Nigerian goddess feels beaten down and unappreciated by her gregarious lover and longs to be truly seen. A young businesswoman attempts to make a great leap in her company, and an even greater one in her love life. A powerful Ghanaian spokeswoman is forced to decide whether to uphold her family's politics, or to be true to her heart. Whether captured in the passion of love at first sight, or realising that self-love takes precedent over the latter, the characters in these vibrant stories try to navigate this most complex human emotion and understand why it holds them hostage. Moving exhilaratingly across perspectives, continents and genres, from the historic to the vividly current, Love in Colour is a celebration of romance in all of its forms. 'Captivating.' Vice
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Like most anthologies, the quality of the individual stories was uneven. I loved some and felt meh about the others.
Amazing writing ! Each story could be a full length book, I wanted to know more about so many of the characters and was sad when some of them were over. I am not normally a romance kinda girl but after this seriously considering picking up her other book!
This took me way too long to finish, but that was because I wanted to be able to sit and read an entire short story in one sitting, to let it wash over me, and apparently I don't sit down and read for long anymore. #sad
But I absolutely loved most of these stories, they took traditional myths and stories from a whole bunch of different places (Persia, Greece, Nigeria, Lesotho, Senegal ... and that's just off the top of my head) and reimagined them so they were love stories, mostly in modern times, and where the women had agency! There were also some original stories at the end of the book.
In flipping back through, I realized that almost all of these women's stories was completely memorable in the telling. An exceptional feat, especially because ... well, the first sentence of this review. Plus, I finished several of these with a big smile on my face.
I think my favorites were Orin, Naleli, Thisbe, and Nefertiti, but I don't think there was a weak story in this collection.
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