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Unfortunately this was my least favourite of the trilogy. Following straight on from where we left off in ‘Homecoming’, we see Binti racing across the desert to save her family and homelands from the Khoush. It quickly turns into a war, one which Binti will do anything and everything to prevent in order to stop the destruction of her people, who will be caught in the crossfire. Amongst all this, she is still struggling with her identity and what it means to be Himba, Meduse and everything in bet...
At the end of Home, Binti had connected with her father's people, the Enyi Zinariya but while with them received news that both her family and her friend Okwu were under attack by the Khoush, another human tribe. We pick up with Binti and Mwinyi heading back to Osemba and fearing the worst. The peace between the Meduse (Okwu's people, giant floating blue jellyfish) and the Khoush appears to be shattered and they will need a master harmonizer to restore it. But Binti may now be too different from...
Eh? This book has two sides to it. On one hand, there's deaths! There's a battle! There's an explanation finally behind the mysterious edan! On the other hand, (major spoilers!) (view spoiler)[ everyone who is thought dead magically is in fact not dead! There is no definitive reason given behind who started the battle in the first place or how/if it ended! The edan was just a device planted solely to get Binti to give some super smart alien being a 'review' of her university - say what?! (hide
fulfilling book riot's 2018 read harder challenge task #17: A sci fi novel with a female protagonist by a female authorno extry points this time...review to come
I think I liked this third Binti book better than the prior two novellas... but why? For one, I think I liked the theme about going home, having conflicts WITH home, and in this third novella, Binti coming to grips with herself and her place in the universe.It helps that she had to go through a ton of tragedy to get there. But that's the nature of storytelling. Conflict is everything. Culturally, these books make up some of the strangest pieces of worldbuilding I've read. We've got an isolated A...
This one was hard to get through. There was too much of Binti being hysterical, whiny, and unsure of herself, which I suppose was understandable considering everything going on with her, but it was exhausting and irritating to read about. Also, there were way too many things happening to her, there was the edan, the zinariya, the okukuo, her treeing, as well as the new fish thing at the end - it was one chaotic thing after another, it was quite ridiculous just how many changes and events she was...
3.5 StarsThis book wraps up the Binti Trilogy which I thought would have been stronger as a standalone. I liked spending more time with Binti and enjoyed the expanded world building but I just didn't find the story was as strong as it was in the original book.
3.5 stars.
1.) Binti ★★★★★2.) Home ★★★★3.) The Night Masquerade ★★★★.5--------------------------------------------------I need moreeeeee!!!
Things I love about the Binti series that are fully brought home in this satisfying conclusion:1) The creation of a future that is genuinely DIFFERENT. Not just medieval Spain but in space! Or contemporary geopolitics, but in space! Or aliens, but with our exact same Western social structure. I get confused, I have to reread, because things are WEIRD in the world of Binti. Wonderfully so. (And yes, of course there are recognisable aspects of current societies, but it just feels like one thing Ok...
So, I'll admit this isn't my kind of sci-fi. I went into BINTI with high hopes because of all the hype and praise and came out confused and definitely on the wrong side of the fandom. That being said, though, I enjoyed HOME a lot more and was very keen to see where things would go for Binti and these characters for the final chapter of her story. Aaaand it was everything the first book was but worse. I absolutely did not enjoy this. I felt the writing was completely different, Binti herself was....
“I am Binti Ekeopara Zuzu Dambu Kaipka Meduse Enyi Zinariya Osemba, master harmonizer”--BintiThe title of this, the third and final volume of the Afro-futurist science fiction trilogy by Nnedi Okorafor, refers to a specter of change that appears to significant people at times of great crisis.At one point Okorafor glibly summarized the book: "African girl leaves home. African girl returns home. African girl becomes home."Binti is a Master Harmonizer (peacemaker) Himba woman who, in the first volu...
