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Bad Love

Jacaranda Twenty in 2020

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Bad Love

By: Maame Blue
Narrated by: Vivienne Acheampong
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About this listen

Against a backdrop of enigmatic nights scattered with spoken-word poetry in London, Venice, Accra and Paris, Ekuah tries to reconcile her personal journey with the love she struggles with for Dee Emeka, a gifted musician who is both passionate and aloof in his treatment of Ekuah.

After 18 months together, he disappears from her life, confirming her worst fears about the unstable foundation of their relationship. She attempts to graduate university whilst retreating into herself, searching for new validations and preoccupations from heartbreak.

Life marches on and Ekuah finds personal fulfilment in her poetry and community work. But when she must choose between her first love and the promise of a new, unexpected love, in the form of Jay Stanley, can she handle the vulnerability and forgiveness required?

Grappling with her examples of love, Ekuah must forge her own path. With an increasingly successful career, she finds herself travelling around the world. When her rise intersects with Dee's own fame, the two are pushed to reach a final resolution.

©2020 Maame Blue (P)2019 Audible, Ltd Contemporary Contemporary Romance Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Romance Heartfelt Africa
Jacaranda Twenty in 2020, The first time a UK publisher will publish 20 Black British writers in one year
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I love true depictions of love and relationships and this really delve into many aspects of that, really got me thinking but the ending/ towards the ending was a bit disappointing? lost that bit of honesty abd rawness I think

very honest

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This book has brought me back into the Audible world. I enjoyed this book.

I loved the narrator. She brought the story alive.

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Listened to the entire thing in a weekend and the book had my attention the entire time - great relatable listen.

Lovely weekend listened

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loved it! love across the generations, cultures and distance, but still love all the same!

Love is love is love!

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I found myself frustrated often. I believe my expectations were the main offenders. I felt the character and story never quite reached authenticity. Reluctant to give something raw. I found myself in want too often to say I enjoyed it. Performance was very well done made it tolerable. Saying all that I didn't hate it just felt it should have been advertised as teen reading and missed out a sentence here and there to keep PG for said teens.

half-hearted?

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