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Nnedi Okorafor: Binti (2019, DAW) 4 stars

It's been a year since Binti and Okwu enrolled at Oomza University. A year since …

Review of 'Binti' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

The glimpses of Himba culture were interesting. The imagined alien cultures of the Meduse and the golden people were OK, but not very deep. The Meduse are honor-bound people who kill stuff. Not too much else.

Given it is a collected trilogy, but there was a lot of repetition in this book--the plot was very uneven. There's an ancient feud, a peace is brokered for literally ten minutes, and fighting breaks out again. Rinse and repeat.

For a character-driven book, there was also a LOT of the main character, Binti, coming to the same realization over and over again. Not in new ways, or in ways that told us how the realization had an effect on her life. Almost word-for-word the same realization.