Welcome to Shelf Control — an original feature created and hosted by Bookshelf Fantasies.
Shelf Control is a weekly celebration of the unread books on our shelves. Pick a book you own but haven’t read, write a post about it (suggestions: include what it’s about, why you want to read it, and when you got it), and link up! For more info on what Shelf Control is all about, check out my introductory post, here.
Want to join in? Shelf Control posts go up every Wednesday. See the guidelines at the bottom of the post, and jump on board!
Title: Akata Witch
Author: Nnedi Okorafor
Published: 2011
Length: 349 pages
What it’s about (synopsis via Goodreads):
Sunny Nwazue lives in Nigeria, but she was born in New York City. Her features are West African, but she’s albino. She’s a terrific athlete, but can’t go out into the sun to play soccer. There seems to be no place where she fits in. And then she discovers something amazing—she is a “free agent” with latent magical power. And she has a lot of catching up to do.
Soon she’s part of a quartet of magic students, studying the visible and invisible, learning to change reality. But just as she’s finding her footing, Sunny and her friends are asked by the magical authorities to help track down a career criminal who knows magic, too. Will their training be enough to help them against a threat whose powers greatly outnumber theirs?
How and when I got it:
I bought a copy last year after reading Binti.
Why I want to read it:
I loved the Binti trilogy, have read one other adult novel by this author (Lagoon), and have yet another (Who Fears Death) on my to-read list. The plot of Akata Witch sounds terrific, and since the sequel came out last year (Akata Warrior), I look forward to getting involved with a story than I can plan to continue.
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Sounds interesting!
Here’s mine for this week: https://potpourri2015.wordpress.com/2018/08/22/shelf-control-12/
Thanks for sharing your link!
The only thing I’ve read of Nnedi Okorafor’s so far are her first two Binti novellas, but I really need to get to some of her longer work and this one keeps calling out to me. I hope you enjoy it when you get to it!
Thanks! I hope you do too!
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I also want to read this book. I listened to the Binti series, and while I didn’t love them, I enjoyed them enough that I find myself thinking back to the story often, and would like to read more of Nnedi Okorafor’s work.
I love this meme topic and decided to participate:
https://alexreadsandblogs.wordpress.com/2018/08/22/shelf-control/
Thanks for sharing your link — so glad you decided to participate!
Oh my gosh! It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these posts. I’ll do one this Friday! 😀
And Akata Witch was such fun to read. I hope you’ll enjoy it too.
I’m so glad to hear you liked it!
Neat premise for a book. Cover is a bit spooky. Hope you enjoy reading it.
http://thebookconnectionccm.blogspot.com/2018/08/shelf-control-aug-22.html
Thanks!