One thing I love about this author is the intruiging titles. When I saw it for the first time, it reminded me of a tree with red flowers that I loved, I didn't know what it was called but for the purpose of this review I researched the name and it's called Royal poinciana. I enjoyed the book but I can't give it 5 stars becasuse it had the tragedy syndrome I've grown to hate in African books. I also hated the ending but the buildup to the that was wonderful.

I also enjoyed how the chapters seem to start with the english version of popular northern sayings and proverbs. I feel it would make a great movie with each episode named after the proverb in each chapter. It won't be counted among my best reads but I'll only recommend it after giving a disclaimer for a sad ending. I don't like sad books because real life is already tragic enough, fiction doesn't always have to be.

For weird reasons I found myself spinning conspiracy theories about the fictional town of Zango because of a reference to it though I think this book came before Dreams and Assorted Nightmares.