Korede has already been researching more about these killings. The twist is predictable – the one man who has been good to Korede, whom she thinks she could love, is obviously going to be Ayoola’s next victim. Blood is thicker than water and culpability and guilt are more powerful and lasting than both. In the conclusion, we get a brief flashback that provides just enough of a hint to explain Korede’s codependency and unnatural desire to back-up her murderous sister, despite the endless guilt and the bad dreams of accusing, drowned bodies. Braithwaite is never overt with her commentary, but underneath the macabre atmosphere and the irony, another realm teems with meaning. The story may be simple on the surface, and told with a brusqueness that is oddly attractive, that even strengths the dream-like narration, but a lot is happening here. My Sister, the Serial Killer is a rapid story, not even quite novel length, and while it skims events quickly, something about the bluntness, the knife-edge of telling that leaves so much hinted at, helps it to grow deep roots that touch on so many things: the history of the two abused girls, sisterhood and loyalty, love and family, jealousy and worthiness, the shallow nature of attraction and beauty, and so much more. It might go on this way interminably, except Ayoola picks the one man Korede cannot bear to see lying lifeless on a cold tile floor – her longtime crush, Tade. But after three such happenstances? Is this really coincidence or extended bad luck? And what about the latest victim – gentle Femi with his love of poetry and his dreams? Could he really have really have tried to attack Ayoola? After three murders, the experts say you’re officially a serial killer, and with no end in sight, Korede must protect her sister and herself while she watches Ayoola continue to collect and dispose of boyfriends. At first, it was an accident – a self defense killing in a land where women are second class citizens. Ayoola, the stunning, younger sister with all the boyfriends and the seemingly happy social life, is a victim of her own past and only Korede, older, beleaguered, experienced in cleaning up her sister’s messes, can protect her. My Sister, the Serial Killer is a story of family, loyalty, and brokenness. In her other world, the world where she wakes in the middle of the night and responds to her sister’s pleas to help her clean up after another murder, her skills take on a different tone. By day, she is a nurse in a Nigerian hospital, secretly in love with the gentle doctor Tade, who shows an interest in her life despite her plain looks. More importantly, she knows how to scrub it away with no trace left behind. Rating: Love is Blind, but Death is Ugly Author: Oyinkan Braithwaite
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