Against the odds

“Against the Odds sucks the unwary reader into an emotional tsunami that holds you captive from the first page till it tosses you, breathless, unnerved, and spent, on the far shore. I started on that journey with a calmness that rapidly dissipated with a shocking thud as I began to agonize with Abeke, root for Omopede, celebrate Gift, and rail with despair and anger at the familiar scads of the vile and their uncanny penchant for disrupting women’s fortunes.