I also like that the author made Sunny a person who questioned the overt sexism in Nigeria and the idea that girls should be held to higher standards than boys. Her family also helped to show the disimiliarities with how many Nigerian parents treat their male and female children. The story was told in Sunny’s POV and we, the readers were able to learn about the Leopard society through her (since she knew nothing about it).
They complimented each other well and each of them had their own interesting story to tell. The characters Sunny, Orlu, Chichi and Sacha formed a really good clique. The book was written wholly in plain prose and while it was not beautiful or poetic, it was very understandable. The former was very good (made of Leopard People (those with magic) and Lambs (those without)) and the latter was simple. Summary: This novel is pretty good but a Nigerian sensitivity reader would have done a lot of good to it.įirst, the concept and style of writing. I saw this novel last year and I was so happy!! A novel about Nigerians set in Nigeria and written by a Nigerian author? Damn…I was all like “Sign me up!!” When I learnt that the author had lived in the US all her life, some of my happiness dissipated but I decided to read it all the same. But will it be enough to help them when they are asked to catch a career criminal who knows magic too? Soon she is part of a quartet of magic students studying the visible and invisible, learning to change reality. And then she discovers something amazing–she is a “free agent” with latent magical power. There seems to be no place where she fits. She’s a terrific athlete, but can’t go out into the sun to play soccer. Her features are African, but she’s albino.
Twelve-year-old Sunny lives in Nigeria but she was born American.
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