powerful look at the future while looking at the past
War Girls is one of those books which builds up with an intensity. From the beginning I was hooked, but as I kept turning the pages, I fell more and more in love with the story and the characters. War Girls is a story about the consequences of war and the road to peace. War Girls is, unsurprisingly, a story about war. The children who look up to the sky and see the shadows of drones. Built on the historical conflict of the Nigerian Civil War, War Girls is a powerful book that refuses to let us walk away. Told over a span of years, Onyebuchi refuses to give us easy answers about guilty, revenge, and peace. A conflict over minerals, over the ground they walk on, turns into something more - a rhetoric that pits neighbors against each other. That twists the metal beating underneath our skin.
From the beginning I fell in love with the science fiction elements. Told from the perspectives of Ify and Onyii, the two main characters, War Girls is a story that examines these two girl's lives. Not only that, but their relationship, their sisterhood, their love. Their lives, even while they are just individuals, play out across screens and distance. What is the truth in war? It isn't as concrete as we think, malleable in warm hands and shadowed in the daylight.
From the beginning I fell in love with the science fiction elements. Told from the perspectives of Ify and Onyii, the two main characters, War Girls is a story that examines these two girl's lives. Not only that, but their relationship, their sisterhood, their love. Their lives, even while they are just individuals, play out across screens and distance. What is the truth in war? It isn't as concrete as we think, malleable in warm hands and shadowed in the daylight.