My sister is a serial6/4/2023 ![]() ![]() At the start, Korede focuses on bleach and how to clean up the blood. The genre mixes thriller, romance, crime and family drama in a short compelling read which is full of dark, dead-pan humour. Braithwaite also switches between the present day and the girls’ childhood, gradually revealing a past trauma. Its short chapters keep the pace going throughout. ![]() We are immediately thrown into the story: Korede’s sister, Ayoola, has killed her boyfriend and it is not the first time this has happened. I had hoped I would never hear those words again”. The novel is fast-paced from the outset, opening in medias res: “Ayoola summons me with these words – Korede, I killed him. This book is a funny, slightly disturbing read set in Lagos, about a woman whose sister (as the title says) is a serial killer! In an interview with the Observer, Braithwaite revealed that it was written during a short period of slight madness when she was trying to break writers block she did not think My Sister the Serial Killer would turn out to be seen as her best work yet. My Sister the Serial Killer – Oyinkan Braithwaite ![]()
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