Reviews

Noor by Nnedi Okorafor

agnewjacob120's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

cynthiareads's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

I’m not sure how to rank this one. Adventurous with short chapters, most of the book feels like a chase scene and those aren’t my favorite. At times, the writing felt choppy and I felt like some things came out of nowhere.  Still, I liked the reflection on disability, technology, capitalism, freedom.  This book had lots to say!

aarnireads's review against another edition

2.0

dnf. As much as I wanted to like this, this had a cool premise but incredibly boring execution. I skimmed to see if something, anything happens but nah.

yes, we get it, you are Very Special, protagonist.

megankrone's review against another edition

adventurous slow-paced

3.0

jenmangler's review against another edition

3.0

Interesting read.

bookcook's review against another edition

I loved Binti so much that it made me want to love everything Nnedi Okorafor writes. However, I have no idea what's going on and life is too short to struggle through books you don't fully enjoy

schmidiot's review

adventurous challenging tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Well written, but I probably should re-read this now that I’ve listened to the audio book because I know I missed a lot of stuff. 

setlledbullet9's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

timinbc's review against another edition

2.0

Started well. Cyborg girl is outcast, discovers power, flees. But then we get the unsubtle "Ultimate Corp." and the unexplained Red Eye (later explained, but not plausible). Then she gets some unexplained power that makes her brain bleed, over and over again till it's tiresome. Repeated doses of "it's so unFAIR" and we come to the Hour Glass, which can be hidden from GPS but goldarnit, it doesn't actually move, how hard can it be to find. We get wind turbines that MAKE wind, a power station measured in megahertz, and some wildly implausible scenes of controlling masses of AIs from her brain, ya sure.

Identity, acceptance of people who are different, evil corporations, AIs everywhere, wind turbines, etc. There are just too many themes fighting for space in a slim novel, and a bunch of characters about whom we don't learn much.

Then there's the white wizard in the desert. I can't even.

For me, every N.O. book is a roll of the dice. That's true of quite a few authors.
But I sure can't recommend this particular one.

sprit's review

adventurous dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

Very cool world they created! And a fun short story you can knock out in a day!