Welcome to the Sci-Fi Sci, a podcast about black science fiction, fantasy and

staying on the same page and this wonderful pleasurable marriage! I'm one of

your incredible hosts Amber Wallen. I'm Ben. Ben, welcome to the show. Do you know

what episode this has been? Episode 17. So this is episode 17 and we sat down and

read the book Riot Baby by Tochi on Yebuchi. Ben, I'm laughing because we have

some feelings about this book but I want us to be you know having honest

conversation about this book because I think we wrote a little bit

surprised. Why don't you kick it off? Yeah well this book is very short and it's

recommended by a lot of authors that I love like Marlon James and Cory

Dr. O. So I had very high expectations going into this book and it could not

have ended soon enough. It was only 173 pages and it was just a drag. It was so it

was so frustrating because the author, Tochi, shows up on Trevor Noah and gave

a talk on Trevor Noah. I also heard him interview Nutty Okura for and they had a

really great interview talking about being Nigerian Americans and using that

inside their literature. You shouldn't even tell me that because that also was

missing from the book. Well he's also written young adult novels as well. He's

also young so he's 33 years old so this is his third or fourth book. So hopefully

he will come into his own but the book had had some problems. So just for the

background. We're gonna tell you what the book is about but we would we you are

going to hear us drag this book and it's gonna be entertaining and I love it. I'm

not gonna drag the book. I'm gonna drag it. Because I bet someday this author is

gonna write a really good book. This book wasn't it? That is a drag then. That's

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