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Aya: The Secrets Come Out: Volume Three

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Aya The Secrets Come Out is the sequel to Aya of Yop City and the third book in the Aya series. At the end of the previous book, Aya's father's mistress showed up at the family's house with children and surprised everyone, and Gregoire, a man ho from France, individually convinced multiple local ladies that he was wealthy and was going to take that lady to France. In this book he's in town promising to take multiple girlfriends who don't know about one another to France.

This book focuses more on the soap-opera relationships in the parent's generation. Aya's father has the mistress problems which intrude on work and spur his wife to visit relatives and go on the warpath and possible dates with other men. Aya's father's elderly drinking buddy loaned a man money several years ago and in return was promised marriage to his daughter, now a teenager. The wives all talk about this and become angry and have meetings and such.

For Aya's generation, there is a beauty contest which all the teenage and twenty-something women want to win and get catty about. The hairdresser meets all of them and they speculate on who he's gonna date. It turns out to be a dude, but only Aya and her sister know about this.

This book is more of the same, and if you liked previous books in the Aya series, you will likely like this one as well. This is not a good book to come in on, because characters who were introduced in other books appear in this one with no introduction. It would probably be confusing and details would be missed if you were to read this without reading previous books in the series first.

It gives you an inside view into the life of the ivorian coast in the 70's. And beautifully drawn. Read the whole series

I have bought all 3 and am hoping for more. This one explains some of the mysteries from the first books. As always, beautifully drawn and great stories. Love the look into the life of the Ivory Coast in 1970!

This is the final series of Aya as she and her friends start growing up and becoming women. And secrets start to unravel in Yop City that could affect everyone. The last series comes out with a bang and it makes the reader want to know more of what is going to happen and the outcome of the situations that take place. Aya is still headstrong and refuses to allow for anyone to challenge her personal well-being. She manages to keep the peace between herself and her friends. There is a beauty pageant that takes place in the city. There is of course, some taboo subjects like homosexuality which makes it even more interesting. The three books are really a great and easy read in helping people understand more about Africa and its people.