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The Night Masquerade by Nnedi Okorafor

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tessatea333's review

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective sad 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? Yes

5.0

Just, wow! What a stunning series and beautiful close to the trilogy. I am in awe of how carefully and intricately woven this story was, and it inspires me to find hope where it feels impossible. Thank you Nnedi Okorafor!

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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? No

5.0

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adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

Strong character development? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes

Relectura de la trilogía de Binti acabada. Esta vez en catalán, y seguida (todo lo seguida que se puede hacer con poco tiempo para leer en papel).
Me he vuelto a emocionar, he visto la historia con una perspectiva ligeramente diferente y la he vuelto a disfrutar probablemente más que la primera vez. Los cambios son parte de la vida, y a veces solo nos falta verlos con la perspectiva y la compañía adecuada, y en el momento preciso para saber apreciarlos.

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adventurous challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad tense 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? Yes

5.0

Oh. . . wow. I don't know what other words to use for this book. No, for this conclusion to the trilogy. It was phenomenal. If I had thought the last book went places? Well, I was wholly unprepared for this one. The storytelling was beautiful and evocative and powerful and. . .

Just left me feeling such a variety of emotions as I concluded this journey alongside Binti. I laughed, I cried, I raged, I celebrated alongside her and Okwu. And then there's Mwinyi who. . . I have no words. I don't often get into the whole book boyfriend thing some readers do, but he's definitely a character who makes me understand why they do.

Once again, the narration for this was top notch. I am always left reeling by how much more powerful the emotions are in this series cause of the talented Robin Miles. I definitely have to check out more of their work. These books deal with some difficult, deep emotions given all of what Binti goes through yet the delivery is always excellent. Quality work.

All I can say now is that I am excited beyond words for this series to be adapted and hope, hope, hope Hulu does the adaptation the justice it deserves and more. And that, of course, I will definitely be checking out more work by Nnedi Okorafor who I think might now be an auto-buy author for me.

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adventurous fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

STAR RATING

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★★★★☆
would recommend

NUMERICAL RATING

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4.50
will likely read again

REVIEW

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As with the first two books in this series, I enjoyed The Night Masquerade more as an audiobook than an ebook. I also enjoyed it more my second time through.

I grew increasingly taken with the characters I'd already started growing fond of, and found

New Fish

particularly delightful.

The edan reveal is a little silly and very anticlimactic. I remember feeling annoyed by it during my first read-through, but the second time through, I found it almost charming.

I didn't think this would wind up being the case, but I would love to read this series again. And, while I had some (arguably) major issues with the first two books, the third makes up for that for me.

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queenkath32's review

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adventurous emotional fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.5

A pretty good conclusion to the series, although I felt like I called the twists about

the deaths of Binti's family not being real, as well as her own death not being permanent

from a mile away. Not bad, necessarily, but then it just didn't feel very high stakes. That being said, while I usually find the final book in a series to be unsatisfying, The Night Masquerade offered me a satisfying conclusion to this trilogy, so I still say that I liked it.

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adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective tense 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? Yes

4.0

This may have been my favorite of this trilogy! The storytelling kept hold on me from start to finish and had me quite emotional at times. If you like sci-fi, pick these up!

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