Name: The Future God of Love
ISBN: 9781913387525

Dilman Dila

The Future God of Love

Sade A

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 "Yours is a lonely fate...To be a kwaro of love, your heart must be free for everyone. You can't lock it up by loving only one person"

This story spins a tale of a world where stories are consumed. Literally!
For a town to prosper, a story teller or what this book refers to as a laboki has to tell stories (good ones) that people could consume. 
Stories shaped the way of life. Stories could end wars, stories could change beliefs. A lack of stories meant the end of life, prosperity as a town would know it. 
I definitely enjoyed the way the author shapes stories in this book as something truly powerful and literal. 
Stories aren't just words, people speak and forget, stories are powerful, stories are life. 

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Jamaaro is a future god of love who desires love for himself above all else but has a hard time finding it and when he does cannot just seem to hold on to it. 
The constant search for love- one that is just for him- has left an indelible mark on his creativity. To create good stories, he feels he must have love. A love just for him.
Jamaaro's quest for love leads him to quite literally, a strange woman. Is she the one who finally fulfills and ends this miserable quest for love? 

While I truly enjoyed the story, I did find the incessant woe is me, I have no love, I want to find love absolutely tiring.
Definitely a good thing this was a novella.
Either ways, good story nonetheless.

Sidenote: I would have appreciated a glossary of the non-English words. While my first point of call when I read books with words in languages other than English, is to always search for translations of those words on the internet, some languages are just unfortunately, harder to find translations of than others. Still worked out though.