Reviews

Binti by Nnedi Okorafor

ethanzo's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad 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

Binti is such a beautiful story. It was so easy to immediately become immersed into the world created, and I loved every moment. I'm a huge fan of really traditional and heavy sci-fi and felt that this book was able to take such a fun spin on the genre, while also keeping those elements of fantastical worlds, technology, creatures and scenarios that make the sci-fi genre so much fun to look towards. Above all else, I loved the seamless blending of culture and identity into the story, and I was truly amazed at how much I cared for the characters, specifically Binti herself, in such a short time. The imagery was also really well done, and I found myself so happy reading this story, even though it's a little darker. This is science fiction at its best, and I'm beyond excited to continue the series!

tumsaddict's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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

3.75

readingunderthecovers's review

adventurous inspiring tense 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

shante9700's review against another edition

4.0

Very climate, smooth read. Read like poetry in a beautiful, developing story. Looking forward to reading the other books in the trilogy

bookish_withsky's review against another edition

3.0

A 2.5-3, but not because it's bad. Its actually really, really good.
This is a SciFi that has been on my TBR for a while. The story was interesting and had me wanting to know what would happen next. I enjoyed the characters, but I dont think I can say I particularly fell in love with them. I found myself just wanting more and I would love to see this more fleshed out. I just don't this there's enough here fore me to rave about it.

pkiwi's review against another edition

4.0

It's good that I'm reading this as part of the collected Binti series, or I would have considered it extremely short. The novella contains many interesting, non-western details and ideas, but also suffers a little from 'chosen one' syndrome. I'm uncertain about what the point of this story was, other than being a very charming short sci-fi story.

natalierosereads's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful inspiring sad medium-paced

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

2.0

tishywishy's review against another edition

4.0

I must say, the number of fantasy books with POC as leads as well as POC fantasy writers is becoming much bigger and I am thankful. Binti is gripping and builds quickly. Happy I got it off my to-read list and I'm excited to read vol 2.

baileycowen's review

adventurous mysterious fast-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? No

4.0

alicjaz's review

challenging dark emotional 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

3.25