A review by podanotherjessi
Remote Control by Nnedi Okorafor

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

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

4.5

This book is much less about the characters or the plot and more about the emotions explored. It's about grief and loneliness and isolation. After the past year (I'm writing in 2021, for anyone finding this review in the future), it was strangely relatable and almost comforting. To see this young girl suffer through being alone and come out stronger for it was powerful. I'm not sure how I would have felt if I had read this at any other time, but right now, it just felt like something was right about it. And I will definitely be thinking about this for a while.

Characters: 8
Plot: 9
Setting: 9
Writing Style: 10
General appeal: 9
Originality: 9
Ending: 6

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Child death, Death, Death of parent, and Grief