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The Night Masquerade by Nnedi Okorafor

10 reviews

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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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Violence

Minor: Racism and Medical content

puttingwingsonwords'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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Death

Moderate: Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Gore, War, Racism, Injury/Injury detail, Xenophobia, and Body horror

avacadosocks's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War and Death

Moderate: Gore, Fire/Fire injury, Animal death, and Blood

Minor: Xenophobia

ellornaslibrary's review against another edition

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Animal death, Gore, and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Misogyny and Xenophobia

queenkath32's review

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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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, War, Xenophobia, and Violence

thoughtsontomes's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring tense medium-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

4.0

This was a strong conclusion to this series and my favorite of the trilogy. Thematically, it wrapped up very well and I enjoyed the themes explored of identity and family. This was a great experience on audiobook as well.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Xenophobia, Racism, War, and Misogyny

Moderate: Death

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