Like Feyi, Alim is an artist who lost a spouse too soon, and while their connection is enriched by this common ground, their attraction is elemental. It’s his elegant, gorgeous father, celebrity chef Alim Blake. It’s just the break Feyi needs, but five minutes after their plane touches down, she knows that the man she’s drawn to isn’t Nasir. He invites Feyi to visit his Caribbean island home, where he’ll introduce her to his art collector father and the curator of a group exhibition of artists of the Black diaspora. Nasir is a patient, kind and determined (slightly) younger man with the resources of a minor prince. I found the relationship drama to be tiresome and the heroine to be annoying.Read more: Your 2022 BookPage summer reading guide
Nasir and Lorraine are not the villains here. Feyi and Alim are not entitled to their understanding and forgiveness. It leans too hard into wish fulfillment for my tastes.Īlso, Nasir and Lorraine are within their rights to be mad and outraged about this relationship. I'm not sure if I find the rest of their relationship to be believable though. It's clear from those passages what Alim is able to offer Feyi that Nasir simply cannot match. With regards to her relationship with Alim, I think the bits where the two of them bond over their shared sense of grief after losing their spouses work the best. It's important to own one's choices! Especially if they are scandalous! And don't hem and haw after the fact! It's too late, and there's no point! Ugh, idk, I found Feyi to be immature and self-absorbed.
kind of wilts and folds at the first sign of adversity. She makes a lot of impetuous and selfish choices, but when it comes time to face the consequences of those choices, she just. Nonetheless, I still found Feyi, the main character, to be mostly unsympathetic and. I'd read reviews and interviews with the author before picking this book up, so I knew that there would be a lot of drama and messiness.
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