Akata Witch
by Nnedi Okorafor.
As a teenager, I would have loved this book, absolutely. I'd be acting it out in a minute, figuring out my own magical power and joining the quest with Sunny and her three new, magical friends.
As an adult...not so much. The rules to her magical universe are dumped on you all at once, with no time to absorb the first before you're darting off in entirely different directions. It's like a video game that only the very young can play. You need all ten fingers on twenty obscurely named buttons to master the controls--and that's just in the first level.
It would have been better as a manga.
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