Cursed Daughters by Oyinkan Braithwaite

Hello my lovely readers! I was duped again by this author. Let's get into it.

SYNOPSIS
When Ebun gives birth to her daughter, Eniiyi, on the day they bury her cousin Monife, there is no denying the startling resemblance between the child and the dead woman. So begins the belief, fostered and fanned by the entire family, that Eniiyi is the actual reincarnation of Monife, fated to follow in her footsteps in all ways, including that tragic end.

There is also the matter of the family curse: “No man will call your house his home. And if they try, they will not have peace...” which has been handed down from generation to generation, breaking hearts and causing three generations of abandoned Falodun women to live under the same roof.

When Eniiyi falls in love with the handsome boy she saves from drowning, she can no longer run from her family’s history. As several women in her family have done before, she ill-advisedly seeks answers in older, darker spiritual corners of Lagos, demanding solutions. Is she destined to live out the habitual story of love and heartbreak? Or can she break the pattern once and for all, not only avoiding the spiral that led Monife to her lonely death, but liberating herself from all the family secrets and unspoken traumas that have dogged her steps since before she could remember?

MY THOUGHTS 
This is my second time reading Oyinkan Braithwaite's work and again, I'm left feeling the same way....bamboozled and disappointed.

I read My Sister, the Serial Killer around this same time last year. It had sounded interesting and I was all for it! But what started as a morbidly promising book fell flat to me and simply turned into chick lit. Obviously, I'm not knocking chick lit, but it's not what I was expecting out of that novel. The same applies for this new novel.

I thought I was going to get a novel focusing on a family curse and the hauntings of a dead aunt and reincarnation. Nope. Instead, I got a romance novel with a teeny tiny bit of a family curse sprinkled throughout it. There wasn't even much interaction of dead aunt Monife and her niece Eniiyi, who's supposed to be her reincarnation.

Everyone behaved so juvenile, that I honestly thought I was reading a young adult novel. Color me surprised when I find out that Ebun, Monife and Eniiyi are all in their early to mid 20s. 

Also, the curse was weak. It's all because of a toxic, failed relationship and the women are the only ones who suffer from it. Lame. I don't think I'll read another book by Braithwaite.