Only on a couple of occasions (regarding police corruption) did it actually play into the narrative at all. This felt like a novel that could have been set at any number of times in history, in any number of places, nothing felt specific to Lagos and therefore I didn’t get any sense of richness from the world, or the characters that inhabited it, they just… were. Ayoola would take an apple and leave the store without paying for it, and I would be blamed for letting her get hungry.“įor all its compelling setup and its interesting enough characters, unfortunately, I felt that the setting and the context (historical, social, and political) surrounding the novel were entirely irrelevant – it didn’t take anything away from the story, sure, but it also didn’t add anything. Ayoola would fail a class, and I would be blamed for not coaching her. Ayoola would break a glass, and I would receive the blame for giving her the drink. When Ayoola chances upon Tadé, one of the doctors (and, more importantly, her sister’s friend and long-time crush) during a trip to her sister’s workplace, Korede worries that he may become her sister’s next victim. We come to learn, through her biased perspective, that Ayoola is beautiful and captivating but also selfish and doesn’t realise (or doesn’t care) how much she strings men along and makes them slaves to her whims. Korede was an extremely interesting character – as the story is told in a first person narrative, readers are easily and immediately placed on-side with her as she dutifully cleans up after her sister’s indiscretions. Luckily, hospital nurse Korede seems to have developed a particular set of skills that make the clean-up extremely easy and the pair of them have (thus far) never been caught in the act of disappearing the body, or, indeed, caught out when police come to question Ayoola about her latest boyfriend’s strange disappearance. Of course, Ayoola claims that she did it because they became violent and she was simply acting in self-defence but, either way, it’s up to Korede to clean up the mess and make sure her sister’s crimes go unnoticed. The basic premise is that a young woman called Korede has a sister, Ayoola, who has an unfortunate tendency of killing her boyfriends. The synopsis (damn, just the title) of My Sister, the Serial Killer is one that is sure to entertain and intrigue alike. But when he asks Korede for Ayoola’s phone number, she must reckon with what her sister has become and how far she’s willing to go to protect her.” ( Synopsis from publisher)
She dreams of the day when he will realize that she’s exactly what he needs. Korede has long been in love with a kind, handsome doctor at the hospital where she works. She knows the best solutions for cleaning blood (bleach, bleach, and more bleach), the best way to move a body (wrap it in sheets like a mummy), and she keeps Ayoola from posting pictures to Instagram when she should be mourning her “missing” boyfriend. Korede’s practicality is the sisters’ saving grace. And now Ayoola’s third boyfriend in a row is dead, stabbed through the heart with Ayoola’s knife. “Korede’s sister Ayoola is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. Title: My Sister, the Serial Killer (2018)
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