Someday, Maybe by Onyi Nwabinela was a bit of drag for this reader. While I was initially draw in by the story and its narrator, I found my interest tapering off.

This was a stunning novel that gives readers all the feels. It starts off with a bang, a bang that made me put the book down for a week or two because I wasn’t ready to read it. Right from the start, we learn that Eve’s husband committed suicide and she is reeling in the aftermath. And readers feel it. They feel it in their bones. As Eve attempts to come to terms with her new reality, her Nigerian family surrounds her with love and support, but it’s just not enough to keep Eve from falling again and again. But a surprising twist of fate forces Eve to truly examine her future and decide where she goes next. This book has my heart, my tears and my sympathy as I wrestled with Eve’s new reality and what that might mean if it happened to me. It's full of deep emotion but is surprisingly balanced with a bit of levity that only a close family can provide. Brace yourself, readers.

This book definitely starts off pulling you right into a gripping, if terribly sad, story. Tough subject, about storytellers husbands suicide. No spoiler as she starts her narrative with this fact, followed by the facts that she found him and she is not ok.

She tells about her stages of grief... And growth... And how those around her either accepted and helped out or did not accept her timetable of grief and hurt her more. She tells about a secret she eventually has to share and how it affected her, her family, and especially her husbands mother.

Also mixed in with the stories of suicide and grief, are issues of race and acceptance and forgiveness and so much more. After all, husbands mother was never thrilled with her white upper class son marrying a black Nigerian daughter of two physicians from the beginning.

Overall, great book. Sheds light on many difficult subjects in an engaging manner which is easy to read. Some of it is a bit repetitive but still readable.

I really loved this book but it wasn’t an easy read.
It’s about a young Nigerian woman losing her husband to suicide and the grief and guilt that consumes her.

Thank you NetGalley and the publisher for this book. What a great and deep read! Where do I begin? The author pulls you in and describes the grief and pain so vividly that the reader can't help but feel for the main character. The subject matter was so raw and real; I could not get enough. I finished this a week ago and am still thinking about it.

I am not a literary fiction fan so I was probably not the right audience for this book, but I gave into the hype and...it fell flat for me.

Eve's husband commits suicide and doesn't leave a note. His family is extremely wealthy and his mother is not friendly to Eve. Eve is from a Nigerian family and works at a magazine. I am not a literary fiction fan and I felt like this book just went on and on and on and on and on and on with nothing really happening. She was mourning, she was grieving, she was reliving how they met, how they fell in love, the good times of her marriage...but nothing really happened.

This book is well-written, but so very sad. I recommend this book, however the mother-in-law was so nasty she seemed resembled a soap opera villain.

This was a beautifully heartbreaking story about a young Nigerian woman's grief and mental health struggles following her husband's suicide. At times heavy, the story felt so raw and honest and relatable for anyone who has experienced such a visceral loss. I really enjoyed how close-knit her family was trying to help her deal with her pain, not just trying to 'make her better' but being there for her and not letting her shut them out of her grief. Excellent on audio narrated by Adjoa Andoh and well deserving of the November GMA book club pick. Much thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an early digital copy in exchange for my honest review!

This book took me on an emotional roller coaster. This book was about Eve and her Nigerian family. This was about a forbidden interracial relationship and marriage. Eve's husband commits suicide and she is left with the aftermath. It is a sad, depressing tale of her emotions. The themes are the death of a spouse, dysfunctional families, interracial differences, loss, love, and forgiveness. Family and friends a very supportive of Eve but the mother-in-law was on a whole other tangent. I can relate to the title and the storyline on so many levels. As I said the author takes you on an emotional rollercoaster with the grief of Quentin's death. I never read this author and it will not be my last. I give this book 4 stars.

3.5-4 stars. The grief and sadness was heavy in this book. I had to take my time reading it. I can’t negate the fact that this book was written so beautifully and in a delicate manner. Was it something that i normally try to read..absolutely not but it was a think peace. Especially about love, suicide and grief.

This book isn't for the faint of heart but if the reader has the ability to walk into the darkness of grief and walk with someone who has found themselves there, the book has the potential to leave a lasting impact. Having spent many years talking with people who have lost a loved one to suicide, the doubts and regrets wash over them and no amount of facts can sway them in many cases.

I don't usually become emotional when I read works of fiction, and at times I found the tug of this-but I also found myself rejoining in the spirit of perseverance and life goes on,

Hope does not die with our loved ones unless we let it.
Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for the ARC.

Sometimes when a book is just so perfect, so personal and so true, it’s hard to put your thoughts down into sometimes that gives it true justice.

Onyi Nwabineli does a beautiful job of capturing the stages of grief as Eve struggles to cope with the death of her husband by suicide.

The novel is real and raw and quite simply an astonishing debut. I look forward to more works from this author in the future.

At first, I thought this book was going to break my heart and I fully expected to be in tears the entire way through it. I am happy to say that I was completely surprised! This book was a moving, touching account of a young woman and her acceptance of her husband's death. This book did not make me sad. This book made me hopeful! I´m positive that it showed the raw and realistic feelings that this woman dealt with in the many months after her husband´s death and it showed us all that life DOES go on! I loved this book and will be recommending it to everyone that I know! Thanks to Netgalley for the ARC!

** A copy of Someday, Maybe was provided by the publisher and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review **

This was a solid and enjoyable read especially considering the content of the book. The main character Eve goes through an extremely traumatic event but her family is solid and are there to help her navigate. I loved her siblings especially Nate with his calm concern. Her best friend is also a gem in this story. It felt real and personal. I loved that the family could help at different angles from legal, traditional, faith and clinical. I would definitely recommend.

This book started promising. The premise was totally drag you in with high interest but somewhere after chapter 6-7 it starts to get boring and confusing. It felt as if nothing was quite happening. I hated Aspen so much and that never changed throughout the story. I hated also how there was never an answer as to why Q killed himself.

I’m giving nothing away when I tell you that 𝗦𝗢𝗠𝗘𝗗𝗔𝗬, 𝗠𝗔𝗬𝗕𝗘 is a sad, sad book. It opens with Eve telling us that her husband, the great love of her life, committed suicide. He also left no note. What follows is her ragged, raw journey through the first year of grief. She’s surrounded by her very loving, very supportive Nigerian family, a best friend who truly earns that title, and a mother-in-law who has never been welcoming to Eve and now is positively haunting her life.⁣
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I feel like debut author Onyi Nwabineli did an amazing job of taking us through this incredibly horrible grieving process with Eve. It’s hard enough to lose someone you love, especially at a young age, but for it to happen suddenly, with no explanation is almost unimaginable, yet she achieved just that. This was Eve’s story, told in first-person, but Nwabineli wisely surrounded her with a cast of characters who played well off her grief and enriched the story.⁣
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If suicide has touched your life, this surely will be a tough read. I have a friend who lost her son to suicide, also leaving no note. I thought of her often as I read 𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘢𝘺, 𝘔𝘢𝘺𝘣𝘦 and I think that actually made me appreciate the book more. I want to leave you with the assurance that this book isn’t all sadness. The relationships between its characters are stellar and bring a lot of warmth to a dark story. I liked it…a lot. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
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Thanks to @graydonhousebooks for an electronic ARC of #SomedayMaybe.

This is the most honest depiction of grief that I’ve ever read. It is heart wrenching! You are able to feel every step of the process. It was an amazing read and I am recommending it to everyone I know!

The plot was definitely heavy and navigated grief. I can appreciate that, but at times I felt like there was no general direction of the story. We see the main character grapple with realty and her family as they try to lend a helping hand-that all was relatable. It was just confusing at times. There was next to no, self growth from the main character at all.

This a great debut, very emotional and well written. I enjoyed reading about her family and how they kept her going after her husband's suicide. A great choice for book clubs!

Wow! How does one finish a book that is drenched, drowned, and dripping with grief and feel lighter? The reader wallows in Eve's sorrow after her husband's suicide. Every turn, every tear, every swing of emotion is expressed beautifully. I can almost not explain how shocked I was to enjoy this thoroughly encompassing book about being sad, beyond sad, devastated. It has to be the writing! At no point did I ever feel that the emotions were not genuine or were exaggerated. Eve truly came to life as a woman who has lost her other half but must continue on and just does not know how. I can easily say that I will read anything written by this author!