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Binti: The Complete Trilogy by Nnedi Okorafor

8 reviews

wickedgrumpy's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

When I write that I wept in this review, it was the ugly kind of bawling that happens when you get very attached to characters.

The world building, the characters, the technology, the journey..  Impeccable.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal death, Blood, Classism, Death of parent, Child death, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Racial slurs, Racism, Religious bigotry, Confinement, Cursing, War, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic friendship, Kidnapping, Mass/school shootings, Medical content, Medical trauma, Bullying, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Xenophobia, Body horror, Murder, Body shaming, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Violence, Grief, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, and Hate crime

tifftastic87's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

This is a collection of four short stories about Binti, three previously published and one new story. In the first story, Binti, we follow our main character of the same name as she leaves her large family in the middle of the night to go to a planet called Oomza Uni where the best Universe in the Galaxy is. This is hard for her because her family and culture doesn't leave, but Binti believes she's made for more. While en route to Oomza Uni, the living ship (Third Fish) is attacked by a race of jellyfish like people. Binti is the only survivor and must continue to survive the remainder of the journey. However, Binti is a master harmonizer and she uses this skill to communicate with the attackers. She is forever changed from this interaction. In the remainder of the stories we follower her growth as she comes to terms with those changes and hones her harmonizer skills. 

Binti has a lot of discussions about racism, xenophobia, colorism and sexism within the realm of Afrofuturism. These conversations are always based in reality and I find them at times really well done and at times a little heavy handed, I liked the nuance in Binti though. We analyze some of our preconceived biases about people different than us through the use of an alien race, which was nicely done here. 

Binti as a character seemed to actually fit the actions of a teenager fairly well, she wasn't one of the chosen one types that is just "oh so strong." She had a lot of emotions, often crying a lot, but finding her resolve to get the thing done. 

The story was surprisingly inclusive of trans folk, which I didn't expect. However, there were still a couple of throw away lines about gay folk that were a little off. 

The stories are also extremely connected and have a really good through line. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexism, Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, Xenophobia, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury, Death, War, Blood, Mass/school shootings, Gore, and Confinement

Minor: Infertility and Eating disorder

boglord's review

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Violence, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Xenophobia, Mental illness, Racism, Sexism, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Body horror, Colonisation, Kidnapping, Medical content, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Dysphoria, Gore, Bullying, Classism, Confinement, Medical trauma, and Genocide

Minor: Mass/school shootings and Emotional abuse

autumnnovels's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, War, Blood, Death, Violence, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Bullying and Injury/Injury detail

purplepenning's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Gore, Murder, Violence, Xenophobia, and Death

Moderate: War, Sexism, Misogyny, Fire/Fire injury, Body horror, and Body shaming

Minor: Pregnancy and Animal death

estelagois's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, and Violence

gsforest's review

emotional reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Child death

Moderate: Racism, Murder, and Gore

bookcaptivated's review

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Gore, Murder, Violence, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Grief and Racism