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A candid meditation on relevant life concerns\u2026<\/strong><\/span><\/span> A candid meditation on relevant life concerns\u2026 Drawing from everyday issues, Akinyemi\u2019s thought-provoking collection interweaves the politics and social trajectory of today\u2019s times with personal issues. In the first part, a series of short, lyrical poems list different shades of inner strength and encourage a fight for survival (\u201cFinding my Feet\u201d). “Broken Men,\u201d examines much favored stereotypical male qualities; expected emotional stoicism in boys and how it affects them as adults. In the carefully tuned […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145610851,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"An Editorial Book Review Website\n\nBook review: Never Play Games with the Devil by Tolu' A. Akinyemi #bookreview #WritersLife #IndieAuthor #authors #Kindle #writingcommunity #poetry #writers #toluaakinyemi #neverplaygameswiththedevil","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[91,460,7215,178,422,531468,66612598,1008073,856121,309],"class_list":["post-2312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-blogging","tag-blogs","tag-book-review","tag-books","tag-poetry","tag-poetry-collection","tag-poetry-collection-review","tag-review-blog","tag-review-website","tag-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pajKJn-Bi","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/145610851"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2312"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2317,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312\/revisions\/2317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nDrawing from everyday issues, Akinyemi\u2019s thought-provoking collection interweaves the politics and social trajectory of today\u2019s times with personal issues. In the first part, a series of short, lyrical poems list different shades of inner strength and encourage a fight for survival (\u201cFinding my Feet\u201d). “Broken Men,\u201d examines much favored stereotypical male qualities; expected emotional stoicism in boys and how it affects them as adults. In the carefully tuned poems in the second part, Akinyemi slyly weaves in complex questions about democracy, corruption, and disintegration of social values (\u201cBad Governance\u201d). The third part is an ode to the love and the trust in a relationship. \u201cSweet for Nothing\u201d defines the essence of true love which is rooted in trust and honesty rather than sweet nothings while \u201cRebellious\u201d celebrates strength of a strong woman. Readers will find Akinyemi\u2019s reflections on significant life issues completely relevant, sharply logical, and deeply felt. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\nNever Play Games with the Devil <\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n
by Tolu’ A. Akinyemi<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n
Buy now<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n
The Roaring Lion Newcastle<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n
Pub date September 8, 2019<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n
ASIN B07WPM5ZXX<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n
Price $3.02 (USD)<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"