Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Home by Nnedi Okorafor

9 reviews

puttingwingsonwords's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Xenophobia, and Racism

Minor: Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Blood

mgseaton01's review

challenging emotional inspiring reflective 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

4.5

Looove Okorafor’s work. She manages to connect you to the main character (whom at least I have absolutely nothing in common with) and expose the same longing for identity and acceptance in myself; all the while spinning a gorgeous world behind my eyes that I swear I almost know the smell of otjize myself. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Colonisation, Classism, Mental illness, and Racism

Moderate: Murder and Blood

axel_p's review

adventurous challenging emotional medium-paced

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

4.0

This cover is my everything

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Content Warnings

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Xenophobia, Blood, Eating disorder, Gaslighting, War, Racism, Body horror, Body shaming, Classism, and Ableism

avacadosocks's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Racism, Violence, and Xenophobia

Minor: Blood and Death

nytephoenyx's review against another edition

dark informative reflective 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

5.0

I continue to be enamored with Nnedi Okarafor's work. Binti: Home is no exception. The world-building in these novellas astounds me. I'm in love with the vibrant way she effortlessly portrays different species, different tribes, and different worlds. Nnedi Okarafor is an excellent writer and deserves much more recognition than she receives, especially in widespread knowledge.

Binti: Home does just that - bring Binti home, where she becomes quickly disillusioned and has her perceived identity stripped from her. There is so much more nuance in the details, but it was a great story of wanting to honor who we were and cling to it while needing to look forward and become the person we were meant to be. There's also an excellent underlying theme about internalized prejudice.

I loved this book and read it quickly, with delight. I'm grateful there's still one more novella about Binti's life as a harmonizer. I wish there were more. I could read this forever.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness

Minor: Death, Violence, Blood, and War

Binti's PTSD is discussed mid-novella and she endures panic attacks. This book was written by a Black woman author and features Black characters. The main character is a Black woman of mixed heritage who has genetic alteration (her hair; this is a story element). There is colorism in certain character behaviors, which is discussed and challenged in the book.

hngisreading's review

adventurous mysterious fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, and Blood

elizlizabeth's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful reflective fast-paced

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

3.5

It feels a bit incomplete, compared to the first one and it draws (poorly imo) on the first book's theme.  The world it creates is different from other sci-fi I've read so it's fun to daydream about space and other forms of life, I especially liked the concept of harmonizers.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Emotional abuse

jmcordero's review

adventurous hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective fast-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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Grief, Xenophobia, and Bullying

Minor: War, Death, Blood, Violence, and Sexism

incigiru's review

lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Blood, Death, Genocide, and Panic attacks/disorders