Half of a Yellow Sun in Max Reads

Feb 07, 2014 Maxwell rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: black-authors, owned

First read: February 7-19, 2014
Second read: November 19-23, 2016

Updated Review:
My thoughts on this after reading it a second time didn't change much. If anything, it made me love Adichie even more than I already did. This confirmed that she's absolutely one of my all-time favorite authors. She's so observant and able to convey human emotion in such a relatable way, even when describing experiences I have never come close to experiencing. A wonderfully, heartbreaking story and one of my favorite ...more

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Dec 05, 2015 Lin rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: all-time-favorites, owned-books, 2015, reread, rereads

Not even two months after I first read it, I reread Half of a Yellow Sun for class. What can I say? I loved it even more this time, probably because I was able to discuss it in class and we talked a lot about Adichie's great narrative structures and her amazing characters. I can warmly recommend all of Adichie's work. The more you know about them when starting to read, the better in my opinion. ...more

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Dec 08, 2016 Rebekah May rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: kindle, historical-fiction, adult, read-in-2016, womens-prize

I feel like every time I read a Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie novel I'm going to have too much to say to put into a review. This is the second book I've read by her and both times I feel like they warrant a discussion, rather than a one-sided review.

This seemed to me to hold so much more than Purple Hibiscus did, and so I've taken my time reading this, trying to absorb everything. I can't put many of my thoughts out there without spoiling anything, but what I can say is that Adichie's writing is ...more

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