My Rating: 3.7
Adunni is a fourteen-year-old Nigerian girl who knows what she wants an education. This, her mother has told her, is the only way to get a “louding voice”—the ability to speak for herself and decide her own future. But instead, Adunni's father sells her to be the third wife of a local man who is eager for her to bear him a son and heir. From there, things go from bad to worse until she has a 'fairy godmother' intercede on her behalf.
I have mixed feelings about this book. I felt that the broken English style varied between endearing to grating but, worse it was inconsistent. There were times when Adunni could barely string together a complete sentence with her broken English and times when she was down right poetic. I have heard/seen her story of a poor girl wanting to get an education while her parents were wanting to marry her off many times. That was all this book offered except the fairy godmother who swooped in to help rescue her. With the writing being somewhat grating and inconsistent and nothing more to the plot, I may be in the minority saying that, this will not be for everyone.
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