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A review by ethias
Noor by Nnedi Okorafor
1.0
I received this book for free from a prize drawing.
It felt like a high schooler wrote this book and I would be very surprised if anyone actually edited it. Very juvenile feeling and everything was extremely over simplified. Some interesting ideas that were utterly under executed, would have loved to be able to delve into some of these concepts and really enjoy them. Very disappointing. Even though it was only 210 pages it felt like it took forever to get through. Characters were basically nothing, they all had the same personality. The stakes should have been incredibly high but I didn’t feel them once.
If the ending was meant to be a twist it did not succeed as I figured it would be the case from the very first explanation of the noor.
Very anti-medication, anti-prosthetics, anti-GMO for some reason. Felt conspiratorial, as if all disabled people were made that way by an evil corporation or government. I have also simply never been a fan of “fixing” disabled people by making it so that their disability is actually now their superpower. Strangely ableist for a book that’s supposed to evoke disability pride.
Very unpleasant book that boiled down to the angsty and juvenile ramblings of a bland and whiny main character fighting an extremely on the nose big bad evil corporation complete with evil monologues. I will be donating it as soon as I can.
It felt like a high schooler wrote this book and I would be very surprised if anyone actually edited it. Very juvenile feeling and everything was extremely over simplified. Some interesting ideas that were utterly under executed, would have loved to be able to delve into some of these concepts and really enjoy them. Very disappointing. Even though it was only 210 pages it felt like it took forever to get through. Characters were basically nothing, they all had the same personality. The stakes should have been incredibly high but I didn’t feel them once.
If the ending was meant to be a twist it did not succeed as I figured it would be the case from the very first explanation of the noor.
Very anti-medication, anti-prosthetics, anti-GMO for some reason. Felt conspiratorial, as if all disabled people were made that way by an evil corporation or government. I have also simply never been a fan of “fixing” disabled people by making it so that their disability is actually now their superpower. Strangely ableist for a book that’s supposed to evoke disability pride.
Very unpleasant book that boiled down to the angsty and juvenile ramblings of a bland and whiny main character fighting an extremely on the nose big bad evil corporation complete with evil monologues. I will be donating it as soon as I can.