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Rating: 4* of five The Publisher Says: An award-winning literary author presents her first foray into supernatural fantasy with a novel of post- apocalyptic Africa. In a far future, post-nuclear-holocaust Africa, genocide plagues one region. The aggressors, the Nuru, have decided to follow the Great Book and exterminate the Okeke. But when the only surviving member of a slain Okeke village is brutally raped, she manages to escape, wandering farther into the desert. She gives birth to a baby girl...
I read my first Octavia Butler novel, Dawn, late in 2014, and late in my life! Reading it I was like oh no black women authored speculative fiction, where have you been all my life? (right there on the shelf being read by millions of folk in the know while I wasted my time, obviously) This is my favourite kind of thing to read, hands down, it hits my reading spot mmmm. This isn't a book of sublimely polished prose where the writer has clearly agonised over every adverb, but the ease and directne...
I've kept an eye on Nnedi Okorafor's career for a while now. Her books always intrigued me-I have a hard time resisting anything post-apocalyptic,* and hers are set in Africa, a great antidote to the typical lily-white American version-but the fact that they were always targeted at young adults kept me away. I like books to have some subtlety about them, paragraphs that don't have the same words in each sentence, lines of dialogue that don't end with "she said ___ly." (To be fair these are certa...
I always get nervous when I sit down to write a review for a book written by Dr. Okorafor. A lot of times I don't feel as though I have the capacity to really truly grasp the novel and I'm nervous that my review won't do it justice. Nevertheless, this was excellent. CW: gang rape, racism, female genital mutilation, extreme violence, sexual content, misogynyWhere does one being with Who Fears Death? It is a story set in post-apocalyptic Africa centered on the Nuru attempt to get rid of the Okeke....
While I had been underwhelmed by the “Binti” series (https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...), I had enjoyed Okorafor’s writing enough to pick up her other (non-YA) books, and reading “Who Fears Death” seems to simply confirm that my intuition was right: she is a fantastic writer with a rich imagination, but most YA stuff just doesn’t cut it for me. While this is a coming of age story, it is definitely not for younger audiences, and it was a much more satisfying read (to me, at least) than her
I'd heard good things about this book. But between its poor structure, its infuriating outdated tropes, its overpowered heroine and its all-too-easy magical solutions to real-life problems, I'm left wondering why so many people like it. Who Fears Death is a post-apocalyptic fantasy novel, set in a future Sudan with many of the problems that plague the region today (genocide, weaponized rape, female genital mutilation, etc.). The narrator, Onyesonwu, is a child of rape, who faces discrimination b...
0 Flawed, imperfect creatures! ★'s “To be something abnormal meant that you were to serve the normal. And if you refused, they hated you... and often the normal hated you even when you did serve them.” *First buddy read with Marie LuftikusI was so looking forward to reading "Who Fears Death" but sadly, all I'm left with is the disappointment! If it wasn't for this being a buddy read, I would have DNF at 12%! In the long run, we both agreed to call it quits at 50%!!! Thank freaking goodne
I tried. I know there are great reviews of this out there and Nnedi Okorafor has won a Hugo and a Nebula and a slew of other awards. So it's a case of this just isn't my thing rather than it's a bad book.I made it over half way when I decided I might have just waded too far in this desert landscape. To start with the positives -I liked the setting of this book, some sort of post-apocalyptic Sudan complete with genocides and FGM, thus even though this is a fantasy novel, it is dealing with many r...
