My Sister, the Serial Killer

by Oyinkan Braithwaite

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The main character Korede is a nurse who is on the way to becoming the head nurse in her hospital because she already handles everything and makes sure it all gets done. Along with her other job duties, she goes and talks to a coma patient because his family has stopped visiting him.
While she talks to him though she tells him about her life, and what her sister has been getting up to and how she doesn't know what to do about it. Talking to this patient is her way of venting because she has no one else to talk to about it because everyone thinks her sister Ayoola is the best and that she is just jealous of her. While in reality she is the one trying to keep Ayoola out of trouble and has from the time they were little kids.
Due to the choices Ayoola keeps making and dragging Korede into they now have to both live with certain things that have happened and that have the potential to end their family. Korede is not okay with these things, but also doesn't want her sister to get into trouble, or for anyone else to get hurt. She doesn't know what to do and as time goes on that becomes a problem.

Overall I did enjoy this book. Korede is a character that we see truly caught between family and what is right. It's a position that none of us truly know what we do in that situation until we're in it ourselves. Throughout the entire book, I felt bad for Korede because of how she was constantly being treated, and because of the hard choice, she was having to make. I liked her as a character and I wish the book was longer so we could have gotten to see more of her and what she did after certain things happened. I wish the best for her and I hope she gets to have her own life.
Like others who have read this book, I would like to see this turned into a movie of short mini-series because of how short the book was, and how it made you want more from it.