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Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson

12 reviews

rachelmcg2004's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Incest, Grief, Death of parent, Colonisation, Adult/minor relationship, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Deportation, Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, Pedophilia, Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, Emotional abuse, Death, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Gaslighting, Rape, Xenophobia, Racism, Stalking, Sexual violence, and Classism

Moderate: Torture, Vomit, and Gun violence

Minor: Infidelity, Abortion, and Child death

beccalynnfrank's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad 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

Check the content warnings before reading!! Hard to read at some points, but I loved the ending and the main characters progression was so meaningful because of all the hard parts. Super cool universe she’s made and the aliens in it are super interesting and well done. Overall great world building + great characters 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Abortion, Incest, Death, Death of parent, Sexual assault, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Pregnancy, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, and Sexual violence

2treads's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful medium-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? No

5.0

"No need to wish for dead, it will happen soon enough. It does come to all of we." - Abitefa.

Nalo Hopkinson is quickly becoming one of my top authors. The way in which she infuses her books with portions of her/our culture shows how dedicated she is to bringing the richness of our practices and celebrations of the Caribbean to her readers.
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Midnight Robber is no exception; filled with influences from Jamaica to Trinidad to Carriacou as a whole was just exceptional. I was swept up and carried away and had no regrets.
Nalo has such an attuned way of writing her heritage: the dialect, the people, the places, the music, the festivals, and the experiences.
It is impossible not to just immerse oneself in the tale she tells, especially when one can relate to what is on the page. The atmosphere that Hopkinson weaves is lush; bursting with Caribbean flavour and folktales even as we travel to planets via 'interdimensional gateways'. 
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The impact of the cultures from the countries where Nalo has lived is vibrantly woven throughout this story, and I could not help but fall into every page. There are experiences that are familiar, both good and bad (friendships, parent/child relationships, family dynamics, and displacement). Not only is there passion in this story, but there is betrayal, misdeeds, bravery, self-acceptance, and triumph.
The polyamory representation was noted and appreciated and content warning: there is child sexual abuse depicted in this story, as well as the damaging effect on our MCs psyche. 
Read This Book!!
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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gaslighting, Murder, Incest, Death of parent, Child abuse, Rape, Abortion, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Pregnancy

Minor: Infidelity and Body horror

forestghost's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-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

4.0

This book was very engaging and made me want to keep reading to see what would happen next, though the very dark topics it deals with sometimes made it hard to do so (incest, child sexual abuse). But while Midnight Robber had a great emotional impact on me, I found myself struggling to understand what the book was trying to tell me. Various themes were woven into the narrative, but many plots that had seemed important were dropped eventually without satisfying conclusions. 
Then again, this story is an exploration of the trauma the main character Tan-Tan experiences, and how she survives. In real life, things don’t usually get tied up neatly with a bow. It’s messy. And thus the narrative works wonderfully to reflect this messiness. 
Also, as a side note, I loved how queer people were allowed to casually exist. 
Overall, a book I would definitely recommend - as long as you’re in the right mindset to deal with the heavy topics. This was not an easy read, especially because I (foolishly) did not look up content warnings since it was required reading for a class. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Rape, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, and Incest

Minor: Death and Abortion

ellekhupe's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Rape, Child abuse, and Incest

Moderate: Abortion

Minor: Infidelity

ra22ouille's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful fast-paced

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

4.0

I was so wrapped into this story from the get go, everything felt so clear with the masterful worldbuilding woven together into the actions of the characters.

Tan-tan brought so much love with her and set a transformation on the world. She was a force of change to people, to new halfway tree, and also Toussaint and granny nanny. Watching her learn to love was hopeful and strengthening.

Abitefa and Tan-tan's relationship made me warm and tender. I wanted more of them together and at the end I really missed Abitefa's involvement because I wanted her to more vocally there and obviously be a friend and equal, not masquerading as a pet (it was unclear to me if she was or not which I found dissatisfying).

The timeline surprised me by how short a time period it was. The way Tan-Tan grew into a legend felt like it should have lasted a lifetime. I think it's really poignant that it all happened during her pregnancy and it says a lot about transformation and life and forgiveness, but I have conflicting feelings bc it was a little confusing and dissatisfying.

Overall this was such an incredible incredible story and it will stay with me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Incest, Rape, Death, Excrement, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Pedophilia, and Infidelity

Moderate: Blood and Abortion

reggiethebird's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Sexual assault, Incest, Pedophilia, Rape, and Violence

Moderate: Abortion, Alcoholism, Animal death, Domestic abuse, Murder, Torture, and Gun violence

Minor: Cursing, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Colonisation, Confinement, Abandonment, and Vomit

jhbandcats's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

Unlike anything I've ever read before, Midnight Robber is deceptively simple and straightforward, like a children's
story, but full of terrifying monsters. The worst monster of all is, of course, the human.

The girl Tan-Tan grows up in an aristocratic home on Toussaint, a Creole-like planet - but all is not well in this seeming paradise. Soon enough, she and her father are exiled to a prison planet just like Toussaint, but with poisonous plants and vicious, deadly animals, having to rely on the douens, the non-human natives, and their fellow prisoners to navigate their new life.

In many ways it's a horrifying coming-of-age tale yet there's a lot of love as well, especially in the lives of the douens. Their community is a gorgeous "city" of many homes in an enormous tree where everyone is satisfied with their lives. It reminded me of the movie Avatar, where the humans destroy anything beautiful because of their grasping, selfish nature, in contrast with the respectful natives living in harmonious coexistence with their home.

There's a lot more to it than that. A very thought-provoking read, one I may return to in a couple of years.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Grief, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Abortion, Child abuse, Rape, Abandonment, Alcohol, Gore, Incest, and Violence

bookcaptivated's review

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful reflective slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Blood, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Incest, Infidelity, Murder, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual violence, and Violence

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit

Minor: Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, and Misogyny

adelaidemetzger_robotprophet's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring mysterious medium-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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Incest, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Rape, Pregnancy, Pedophilia, Murder, and Abortion

Minor: Cursing