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A review by ameliabee33
Remote Control by Nnedi Okorafor
dark
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
3.75
Like with most of Okorafor's work, this is another short story that is complex in plot and characters.
I saw a review saying that reading/listening to this book was like reading a tale of an origin of a god, and honestly yeah that is basically it. We get the origin story of Fatima, and how she walks with death. She is a child, confused as to why this power is given to her and eventually doesn't want the answers. She just wants a home, a place that where she can go to stop running. The majority if the time there are some people that are nice to her, because she can do things for them like euthanasia or be a bodyguard of sorts. However no one really, truly wants her to stay, and that sadness permeates throughout the book.
Afrofuturism is such a cool genre and Okorafor is excellent at writing it.
I saw a review saying that reading/listening to this book was like reading a tale of an origin of a god, and honestly yeah that is basically it. We get the origin story of Fatima, and how she walks with death. She is a child, confused as to why this power is given to her and eventually doesn't want the answers. She just wants a home, a place that where she can go to stop running. The majority if the time there are some people that are nice to her, because she can do things for them like euthanasia or be a bodyguard of sorts. However no one really, truly wants her to stay, and that sadness permeates throughout the book.
Afrofuturism is such a cool genre and Okorafor is excellent at writing it.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death of parent, Death, and Child death