Adesuwa does exceptionally well and deserves credit for centering women over forty as worthy of love. Not consolation love. Not “settling” love. But real, expansive, desire-filled love.

In The Full Picture, we see how Carmichael presents Robyn’s grief as a language to learn, one that reshapes her identity.

The Return slightly deviates from the author’s themes of love and redemption, dwelling on human relationships and sense of duty.

Counting Miracles leaves readers feeling grateful and is a ray of hope for the brokenhearted, and a reassurance to the faithful that God exists.

The health-related theme that this story touched on was powerfully delivered, and Dreamland is a better book for that reason.

Nothing Comes Close is a story about Lola, a Nigerian woman living in London, and Wole, a mysterious man with a complicated past.

In Broken, Fatima Bala didn’t create perfect characters but they were perfect in the way they lived their lives.

In Aaanu Ife, Ina’s adventure takes her through different shades of her recent past, even as she finds fresh resolve to heal from past traumas.

This book gave off the feeling of an old English movie even as the characters came alive in my subconscious as I read.

The clergyman sounded solemn. His words would certainly cut deep, spoken in a slow, grating baritone that punctuated every consonant and elaborated every vowel. 

Nicolas Sparks illustrates the beauty of nature, and some are landmarks in the characters’ lives, all of them adding color to the story.

This book explores difficult themes such as complex mother-daughter relationships, death, loss, miscarriage, and depression.