A review by geraldine
Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor

adventurous emotional reflective tense medium-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? Yes

4.0

really enjoyed this one.

spent the vast majority of the book thinking that i really liked the parts about zelu and her life and thought they were really strong, but that the part about the future robots didn't seem to fit with the rest. i didn't think they were bad and i thought the story was interesting, but i just didn't find it believable that these would be the book that had taken the world by storm and made zelu a critical darling. i was at the very end and thinking, "yeah, i like this well enough, probably like a 3-3.5ish" and then i got to the very end.

really liked that both zelu story ended vague and also the final reveal!! it worked for me.

had finished the book last night and laid in my bed for a while thinking about it.... does ankara have like ao3 downloaded as part of her scholarly research or what. how does she know what fanfiction is. why did she write zelu looking up fanfiction about the fictional versions of herself and ijele. she is so so so so so funny