Half of a Yellow Sun

Half of a Yellow Sun

2006 • 541 pages

Ratings85

Average rating4.2

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4.5 stars. Everyone told me this book would wreck me, and it did, but not in an obvious tearjerker way. Half of a Yellow Sun starts with the mundane but swells into action with uprisings, war, and turmoil that affects the characters you've developed attachments to during the mundane chapters. The book has a cinematic quality to it that makes sense, knowing it was later adapted for film.

April 11, 2017