Love According To Soala

Book Summary of Love according to Soala by Adeyemi Adeoye

Main characters:

                     .Soala: bride.

                      Nancy: Soala’s friend.

                      Johnson: one of the suitors.

                      Mike: Johnson’s friend.

                     

This story takes place in Lagos city, Nigeria, where Soala is parented by her mother after the sudden death of her father by greedy business tycoons when she was a kid. Soala lives a mixed life and she experiences a lot of set back and betrayal because of her flair for money and power.

Soala has one particular strength; her beauty. She is charming and hard to overlook. She could hardly walks freely in the neighborhood without people seeking for her autograph. But this soon put her into mess and confusion when Johnson, a desperate young guy seeks after her and the murderers of her father want her at all cost.

Unable to make a decision on her own runs to her mother who tells her about her father’s murderers and influences her decision to pay back in great measures. But her love affair with them still goes on.

Soala is unaware that her best friend, Nancy has plotted with Johnson to play on her feelings by giving Johnson dual identities. Johnson is disguised as a female student and set up to befriend her while also appearing as one of her suitors whereby making every of her plan known to him. This later back fired as Johnson impregnated his best friend’s girl friend which makes Mikes out of anger reveals the secret to Soala.

The wedding day is proceeded as proposed but the bride-groom to be is unknown. We are made to guess what would happen next as to whom she would marry and what she would do to her father’s murderers. At last, Soala is married to her first love leaving Johnson sorry for himself and her father’s murderers are arrested.

This story is a mixture of comedy and romance.