I’ll let this review stand for all three Binti books, though I enjoyed this one the most.

The Binti books are superb speculative fiction. They take place in a fully imagined and believable world with characters that are at once familiar and strange.

There are two things that I particularly love about these books beyond their wild inventiveness.

The first is that the adventures here are about making peace, where so often it is about making war.

The second is the way these books examine what happens when you encounter and get to know someone from a culture that is different than your own. Okorafor manages to capture the way a different culture slowly becomes a part of you, changing you even while you remain the same person.

These books are amazing, and I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend them to anyone willing to travel and explore beyond the familiar.