Nice girls don't wear cha-cha heels.

First off: I received an ARC of this graphic novel through Net Galley in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own for better or worse, etc. On to my thoughts: This book is GORGEOUS. I can't wait for it to come out in January 2020, because I am absolutely going to buy it. I hoard graphic novels and comics, as well as science fiction and fantasy literature, so this will fit right in with what I've got going. Plus, I have an abiding love for the work of Octavia Butler. Soooo... yeah, it's going to be mine. The art, which was done by John Jennings is beautifully done. Although in this ARC it is incomplete, it still rocked my world. The completed pictures are lovely, but even the sketches show the promise of beautiful panels to come. And I have to say, the decision to show the journal entries as handwriting on bits of notebook paper was an artistically wonderful decision. As for story, well, it's Parable of the Sower . This adaptation doesn...

I loved this book. Like, I fell in love with it. If I could, I would probably marry it. I think that Nnedi Okorafor is an immensely talented author with a real talent for world building. Her description of Lagos makes me feel like I have seen it, although I most definitely have not. And her descriptions of the creatures and landscape of the lagoon at Bar Beach are so beautifully rendered that my mind was working overtime trying to picture each altered bit of life. Although I found myself strongly interested in each named character, the amount of respect that I felt for both Ayodele and Adaora was transcendent. Ayodele was so regal and wise, and Adaora so strong and brilliant that I felt my feminist-self shed a few tears a la my responses to the thigh jiggle in Wonder Woman (why does that have to be the thing that does me in??? In a movie about strong women, I am so much more concerned about the fact that a fit woman's body was allowed a momentary filmic jiggle ...