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A review by timinbc
Noor by Nnedi Okorafor
2.0
Started well. Cyborg girl is outcast, discovers power, flees. But then we get the unsubtle "Ultimate Corp." and the unexplained Red Eye (later explained, but not plausible). Then she gets some unexplained power that makes her brain bleed, over and over again till it's tiresome. Repeated doses of "it's so unFAIR" and we come to the Hour Glass, which can be hidden from GPS but goldarnit, it doesn't actually move, how hard can it be to find. We get wind turbines that MAKE wind, a power station measured in megahertz, and some wildly implausible scenes of controlling masses of AIs from her brain, ya sure.
Identity, acceptance of people who are different, evil corporations, AIs everywhere, wind turbines, etc. There are just too many themes fighting for space in a slim novel, and a bunch of characters about whom we don't learn much.
Then there's the white wizard in the desert. I can't even.
For me, every N.O. book is a roll of the dice. That's true of quite a few authors.
But I sure can't recommend this particular one.
Identity, acceptance of people who are different, evil corporations, AIs everywhere, wind turbines, etc. There are just too many themes fighting for space in a slim novel, and a bunch of characters about whom we don't learn much.
Then there's the white wizard in the desert. I can't even.
For me, every N.O. book is a roll of the dice. That's true of quite a few authors.
But I sure can't recommend this particular one.