This experience, whatever it is called, where you start a book, and you almost immediately, lose interest, and then the next moment you pick up the book, you just can’t seem to put it down anymore, is actually one bookish problem I want answers to. What happens the first time? Why did my brain reject it, and all of a sudden, it’s so attracted to the same book like my life depends on it?
I picked up this book I’d started sometime last year, wanting to be reminded of why I’d let go of it back then. I started it again, and before I knew it, I was done with the 500 pages of the book, lol. Let’s review the book ‘God, Ugo and Me’ by Rosemary Okafor.
The book revolves round the life of Ugo and Og. Two people attracted to each other, but as a result of past experiences, find it hard exploring their attraction to each other, for fear of it destroying the beautiful nothing they share at the moment. One thing eventually leads to another, attraction blossoms into actual feelings, and they find themselves falling for each other faster than they ever imagined, till the point that withdrawal doesn’t even exist as an option.
I knew this book had me on chokehold, when the sleep I usually can’t control, after an exhausting day, was willing to let me read as much chapters, and get as much glimpses as I could into Ugo and OG’s relationship. They were two sweet souls, deserving of each other, and undeserving of many things they suffered in the book.
Ugo was such a lively character, I liked her. She was quite impulsive, and dived headfirst into situations, without care of any possibilities. However, she was fun, and aside her impulsive side, every other side of hers was nice to read about. OG! Where do I even start with this epitome of a man. He’s the perfect description of a gentleman. How he handled the injustice he suffered multiple times, needs to be studied because how do you maintain such calm in the midst of all that, and still be the way you are? If that isn’t a superpower, I wonder what it is. He was my favorite character.
If there’s one thing I love about this author’s works, it’s how she makes God appear as a character in her books. While the love interests are finding themselves, and figuring themselves out, you’re also hearing whatever God is telling them, through him. It’s never a character relaying what God told him or her. Rather, It’s just written there, unfiltered. I smile everytime I come across it written that way, because that’s just how it is.
It was through this particular author that I read a Nigerian Christian romance book, and having read my second book in this genre, which is also from her, she might just become my favourite romance author. Having been used to authors not keeping up to standard, this was quite different, considering it wasn’t a spin-off of the other book, but something entirely different, yet worthy.
If you’ve never read a Christian romance book set in Nigeria before, you should definitely check this out. It’s an 8/10 for me.
Thanks for reading.
Images above are screenshots taken by me, while reading.