Reviews tagging 'War'

Binti by Nnedi Okorafor

29 reviews

abookwormspov's review

adventurous emotional reflective 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? No

5.0

This was an excellent novella. It is so short, but the world building is so clear and the writing is so vivid. It is a story of prejudice, identity, violence, and unexpected friendships.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Murder, War, Xenophobia, and Violence

dragon_s_hoard's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Murder, and Blood

Moderate: Colonisation, War, Classism, Racism, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

vigil's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious reflective fast-paced

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

2.0

it clearly was trying to do something it really didn’t succeed at. suffers from being a novella for sure. and the prose is a bit bland for my tastes, though the story ideas are interesting. i might read on but not right now.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Blood, Body horror, Death, Gore, War, Xenophobia, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

biobeetle's review

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Xenophobia, War, and Blood

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

justcallmeemily's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious tense fast-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

4.0

It was a fun short read. I'm definitely going to go read the rest of this authors works.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Racism and Xenophobia

Minor: Genocide and War

sophiesmallhands's review against another edition

adventurous 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Death

Moderate: Racism, Xenophobia, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: War

alisonfaith426's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Death, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Racism

Minor: War

becausebrenna's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious fast-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

3.5

I wasn’t sure I was going to like this at the beginning because of the writing style (1st person POV, through the eyes of a 16 year old) but the book picked up about 20 pages in and I ended up really enjoying it! Good sci fi novella, it was a fast read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Violence

Moderate: Racism

Minor: Suicide and War

book_snail's review

adventurous hopeful inspiring reflective 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? It's complicated

5.0

VERY good book; I would definitely recommend going in blind for this one. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Violence, Racism, and Genocide

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Death

ellementary's review

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

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

2.0

I wish I liked this more but I just didn't connect. The premise is interesting and the cultural integration and social commentary was really good, but the story never took off for me. I feel like it would have been better as a full novel rather than a novella, personally. I needed more time for this story to bloom.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Gore, Xenophobia, and Racism

Minor: War