Cursed Daughters by Oyinkan Braithwaite

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Published: June 25, 2026 by FABER AND FABER

Fiction/library

This one was not as good as my sister the serial killer. It was good, but I think the constant jump between everyone kind of took something away.

Eniiyi is the main character, but so is also a lot of others. She is part of a cursed line of women. She is also the spitting image of her aunt who died before she was born.

And everyone is cursed to have bad luck with men. All try, and all come back to the family house. We get to see many failed relationships, and one is the aunt.

Kind of sad to see everyone fail at love. Eniiyi is trying, but sometimes you just fall into patterns even if there is no curse. And who knows, maybe there really was a curse.

I still liked it, the end brought some twists. But again, no real closure.

No man will call your house his home. And if they try, they will not have peace... So goes the family curse, handed down from generation to generation, ruining families and breaking hearts as it goes. And now it's calm, rational Eniiyi's turn - who, due to her uncanny resemblance to her dead aunt, Monife, and her family's insistence that she must be a reincarnation, has long been used to some strange familial beliefs.

Still, when she falls in love with the handsome boy she saves from drowning, she can no longer run from her family's history. Is she destined to live out the habitual story of love and heartbreak, or can she escape the family curse and the mysterious fate that befell her aunt?