Reviews tagging 'War'

The Night Masquerade by Nnedi Okorafor

16 reviews

mar's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Death, and War

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders and Gore

zombiezami's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Blood, War, Hate crime, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Child death, Violence, Xenophobia, Death, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Medical content and Animal death

Minor: Death of parent

Ethnic discrimination

doomluz's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional tense 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

4.5

An interesting conclusion to this trilogy. The world building in this series is really strong and makes me want to read more about it.

I wasn't expecting Binti to die about halfway through (especially so brutally, but I guess that could've been done so that readers would have no doubt that she died and to show the brutality of war). I thought the rest of the book was going to be about remembering her and Mwinyi and Okwu solving the rest of the questions that needed to be answered and maybe completing her mission. But then she's revived.
It's funny Binti points out that the reasons the Zinariya left the golden ball felt anticlimactic because it was. There were a few story threads that still weren't completely answered, which makes me hope that Okorafor will write a fourth book or something. But overall I enjoyed this trilogy.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, War, Violence, Gore, Animal death, and Grief

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Misogyny, and Sexism

jessthanthree's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective tense medium-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Xenophobia, and War

Moderate: Racism

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

ofavalley's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful 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? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Gore, and Violence

Minor: Animal death

ireadinbed's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark reflective medium-paced

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

3.0

I will be honest this series has been a bit of a disappointment for me. 

There are lots of things I like but it is just really hard to follow past the first book.

I think I may not be this book's ideal reader but I did get a lot out of it. I really enjoyed the ending which felt new and exciting when I understood it. 

I did feel like a lot of it's magic system was being suddenly explained and I could have used that info earlier

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War and Death