Name: Stay with Me
ISBN: 9789789593200

Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀

""Stay with Me" is a tale about our desperate attempts to save ourselves and those we love from heartbreak"--Back cover.

Stay with Me

Sade A

One of the greatest lies ever sold to women is "LOVE" and how women are supposed to bend over backwards, break themselves if need be for love...
This book had me up in my feelings because you really hear about this kind of things happening. How women are made to feel less than because they aren't mothers. It was especially painful for me reading about Yejide because she had no-one in her corner.. No one to tell her this isn't love and that she deserves better.

My one negative with this book was that I didn't like that a whole lot of pages were devoted to political commentary at that time in Nigeria. Mainly because it just didn't seem to gel and was sort of jarring really to have that much political commentary.

All in all a really fantastic read, that I would recommend to everyone. 

Also p.s Tomi Adeyemi could really use this as a sort of reference on how to write Yoruba in books and also what constitutes Yoruba names.

Sheryl Levitt

This book was easy for me to get into. I started reading it at the hair salon on a Friday night and finished it on Sunday.

The story is told in two different settings - the past and the present. Although I don't always enjoy this style of writing, it worked quite well for this book because it refrained from jumping around too much. It is also written from both perspectives so you can examine the entirety of Yejide and Akin's relationship. There were some plot twists - nothing that surprised me too much.

A great take on what people will do for love and relationships.

Stay with Me

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