Book Review: Love In Colour by Bolu Babalola 📚💖

Love In Colour by Bolu Babalola (9/10🌟)

I really loved this collection of short stories about love. It features ten tales reimagined and three new tales and all of them feature powerful, distinctive characters. I laughed, smiled and fell in love with the female characters (I think Attem may have been my favourite). It's refreshing to see female characters that I can relate to and they aren't needing to be saved or are being murdered. The nine star rating is because even though each story is different I still found them predictable, and at this current point in my reading adventures I'm bored with predictability. But that doesn't take away from how rich and beautiful each story is since I will definitely enjoy revisiting this book in the future. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who loves short stories (which seems to be appropriate for peoples short attention span at the moment) or anyone who loves LOVE.

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