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Binti: Trilogia Completa by Nnedi Okorafor

21 reviews

hanz's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, Grief, Violence, Death, Blood, and War

hannahhmh's review against another edition

adventurous dark reflective

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Blood, Racism, War, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Sexism

timsormin's review against another edition

adventurous dark inspiring reflective 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? It's complicated

3.75

The extra story, added in between the 1st and 2nd novella, really hurts the pacing. I recommend reading the original trilogy straight through, saving the extra story for in case you feel like you want to visit the characters again afterwards.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Gore

Moderate: Xenophobia, War, Racism, and Panic attacks/disorders

starlitpage's review against another edition

challenging emotional 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? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, War, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Racism, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Medical content, Death of parent, and Death

Minor: Slavery

_lilyonbooks's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Xenophobia, and War

wickedgrumpy's review against another edition

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 against another edition

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

mimlleigh's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful sad 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: War

tubercule_oursidae's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective 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? It's complicated

5.0

it was a game changer for me, this book is incredible, I want more. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and War

Moderate: Xenophobia

species are at war in this book, and it is violent. Violence is not free, it is well written and justified

chattie_the_mad_chatter's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad 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? No

5.0

I have now finished the whole Trilogy from this bind up including the short story sacred fire and I loved it so much.

These books pack a punch. There is so much reflection on being human and things that reflect our society within this futuristic world and mix of fictional species, cultures and races. How this world could feel so real within such a short space of time. The personal journey Binti goes on and her friendships, relationships with her family etc. is astounding. 

The end wrapped up the series so well and I really felt we came full circle. I had an amazing journey and can't wait to read more from this author! 😃💜📚

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, War, and Grief