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4.02 AVERAGE
4.02 AVERAGE
adventurous
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Impressive continuation that uses the plot action to develop the characters. Another great cover, and I think it will be easy to get kids hooked in to this world, as all teens will be able to resonate with identity and parent struggles. I'm now really looking forward to part three coming out next month, especially with the tension-ratcheting cliffhanger ending!
‘Binti: Home’ by Nnedi Okorafor is book two in the Binti series. It is a middle book of a trilogy, and it has all of the pluses and minuses of being a middle novel in a continuing series! For instance, some mysteries that the first novel in the series, [b:Binti|25667918|Binti (Binti, #1)|Nnedi Okorafor|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1433804020l/25667918._SY75_.jpg|45491127], left readers with, are resolved, but more mysteries arise, to be resolved in the next book.
Binti is more fully experiencing the relentless erosion of the beliefs taught her in her conservative upbringing in this book. Not only is Binti trying to decide whether to move forward into a new paradigm of understanding the universe that is different from her isolated tribe, or of making the decision instead to not go forward at all and stick to her tribe’s rituals and beliefs, but she is still trying to come to terms in the first place with the new ideas.
The confusions of new ideas and of acquiring new skills necessary to handle the actual complexity of her expanding horizons, such as learning she is racially mixed, has her desperately wanting to “go home.” I think the desperation she is feeling is of wanting to be as simple as a child again, a time of blind acceptance of her parents and in her tribe’s teachings, and in her previous locked-in world of unquestioned rituals and rules.
Every book so far brings new challenges to Binti’s former mindset, forcing her to see how wrong her beliefs were in the now clearly erroneous foundational teachings of her parents and of her tribe. One parent in particular has been bending her natural abilities into a shape that suits his desires of belonging to the ‘right’ family.
Binti has been offplanet, and she has gone to college with many different species with different beliefs than those with which she was raised. Her new teachers have been leading her to explore those parts of her that her family had been suppressing. Like it or not, she has become an outsider. In this novel, she is struggling with that realization.
I will be continuing on to the next, and final novel in the series.
Binti is more fully experiencing the relentless erosion of the beliefs taught her in her conservative upbringing in this book. Not only is Binti trying to decide whether to move forward into a new paradigm of understanding the universe that is different from her isolated tribe, or of making the decision instead to not go forward at all and stick to her tribe’s rituals and beliefs, but she is still trying to come to terms in the first place with the new ideas.
The confusions of new ideas and of acquiring new skills necessary to handle the actual complexity of her expanding horizons, such as learning she is racially mixed, has her desperately wanting to “go home.” I think the desperation she is feeling is of wanting to be as simple as a child again, a time of blind acceptance of her parents and in her tribe’s teachings, and in her previous locked-in world of unquestioned rituals and rules.
Every book so far brings new challenges to Binti’s former mindset, forcing her to see how wrong her beliefs were in the now clearly erroneous foundational teachings of her parents and of her tribe. One parent in particular has been bending her natural abilities into a shape that suits his desires of belonging to the ‘right’ family.
Binti has been offplanet, and she has gone to college with many different species with different beliefs than those with which she was raised. Her new teachers have been leading her to explore those parts of her that her family had been suppressing. Like it or not, she has become an outsider. In this novel, she is struggling with that realization.
I will be continuing on to the next, and final novel in the series.
adventurous
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:
Yes
I find this world really interesting and enjoy Okorafor's writing, but I also feel like something is missing. Maybe that is just due to how short the story is...this ends on a cliffhanger and I am hoping we have a conclusion in the third book that wraps things up well.
Es obviamente el libro sandwich.
Adendum a 2024: ya le tengo poca piedad a los malos libros sandwich.
Adendum a 2024: ya le tengo poca piedad a los malos libros sandwich.
I liked this one better than the first. It was a good length, not feeling so compacted, and there was lots of creative world-building. Still a little unsettled how all the characters basically ignore someone's particularly violent tendencies, even as the main character deals with trauma from what happened in the first book. But otherwise a nice nuanced tale about openness and belonging amidst different cultures, with a continual sprinkling of clever plot twists on the traditional hero's journey. And I still love the living ship creatures.
adventurous
emotional
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:
Complicated
I enjoyed this one almost as much as the first. The story is certainly easier to understand if you read the first one. This deals with some PTSD from the first story. The main focus is the homecoming and dealing with changes of who you were vs who you now are.
The ending is a cliffhanger. Not sure I would have made this novella. It feels mare like a break point for a new chapter rather than a true ending.
Eh... It was okay. I was really into the beginning of the book, it showcased PTSD really well and Binti's coping mechanisms. I feel that once we got to the desert it became a little muddled, but intriguing. It was interesting enough to have me wonder where the last book will take us. Maybe because Binti was feeling conflicted so was I.
adventurous
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes