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I found more to admire than fully enjoy in reading this short, somewhat truncated work. I continue to find the world Okarafor created to be intriguing, but something in her approach to telling Binti’s story just misses the mark of fully connecting me to her confusion, emotional reactions, and sense of self-discovery.
I have to say I'm really sad I don't love this series as much as some people do. I remember reading the first one in the series a while back and liking it, but still not getting the hype a lot of my friends were giving it. Going back into Binti's world, I still don't get the hype. What I do like about this series is that it's showing a female character who I think is pretty great and stands out from her Himba people in positive ways. She is trying to change things and show that you don't have to...
3.5 starsAfter a year at Oomza University, Binti wants to return home. She's learned a lot, but hasn't made any close friends, except for Okwu, the Meduse who participated in the traumatic event of the first novella... and it is now her friend and a student at Oomza too.Binti is suffering from PTSD; she has panic attacks and nightmares. Disturbed that she has been experiencing extreme bouts of anger and rage, she wants to go home and participate in the pilgrimage that Himba women take into the d...
Home takes place a year after the ending of book one and Binti has moved forward with her talents. Binti is feeling the pull of home and is ready to visit her family and hopefully find the peace that she has been unable to regain after everything that has happened to her. Binti is strong and determined, but she is struggling with all of the rapid changes in her life. However, returning home is nothing like she expected or hoped for. Joy, apprehension, distrust, longing for what was but can never...
This sequel to "Binti" directly addresses the issues I had with the first story (in my review, here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...). (Yeah, maybe being buddies with an inscrutable alien terrorist and bringing him home to meet the fam isn't the 100% BEST idea ever.) However, the first story was a more complete-feeling, self-contained piece of writing. "Home" is more of a "what happened next" piece. After a semester at Oomza University, Binti gets antsy/homesick, and returns home for a
Thanks to Netgalley for this ARC!This is my third Nnedi Okarafor and I think it's a definite improvement on the previous installment of Binti which read as pretty decent as a coming-of-age novel but was even better as a world-building novel.This sequel, or perhaps it should be considered an ongoing line of novellas following Binti, has her returning back to the home she had left so unceremoniously in the first novella, a full year later, only to encounter some interesting and sometimes painful r...
Can you ever go home again? Binti returns to her home planet and is faced with navigating a complex political landscape with the Meduse, Okwu, as well as her own transformation. Family expectations have her preparing for a pilgrimage, but the people in the desert may have their own plans (or it is her destiny.) As always I very much enjoy the unique ways Okorafor blends various African folklores and mythologies with magic, outer space, aliens, and this time, with math! to create a vibrant and im...
I listened to the audiobook read beautifully by Robin Miles. This is the second installment, maybe a sequel. In the first, short, novella, Binti suddenly leaves home to go to Oomza University. In the process this 16 year girl experiences a traumatic event, and before this second book, apparently completes her first year of school! The school is all about knowledge AND imagination, and Binti is a math whiz with tentacle-hair and with psychic/magical powers.Because of said traumatic event, Binti h...
I don't think this novella series is going deep enough. I've had historical problems with novellas, always wanting either more or less, but novella series have treated me well enough that I expected more from this. Yet I'm just not feeling it. // SOME BASIC GOODSWhile I'm still not totally sold on the symbolic nature of this series, I have to admit that Binti and Okwu - both as individuals and as a pair - are lovely. Binti's narrative around PTSD is amazing and her narrative around being mixed r...
#1 Binti ★★★★★#2 Home ★★★★☆#3 The Night Masquerade ★★★☆☆#1-3 Complete Trilogy Edition ★★★★☆There was always so much I didn’t know, but not knowing was part of it all.Despite how much I loved the first novella in this series, the second one fell flat for me in a few ways and I struggled to get through it at times. The lack of world-building that mildly bothered me before ended up being a big obstacle for me in this sequel, as I still feel like there's very little depth being given to the setting
This review contains spoilers for Binti.This book is very similar to its predecessor. If you enjoyed Binti, you’ll probably enjoy the sequel, Home. If you didn’t enjoy Binti, you can safely skip this one. I was somewhere in the middle on both books: They were a mix of some things I liked and some things I didn’t, but they were ultimately both entertaining enough for me to keep reading.We’re back with a protagonist I genuinely enjoy. Binti is the same intelligent and earnest individual I remember...
One moment, Uncle Gideon was laughing raucously at something and then the next, he was struggling to keep my father from toppling over. “Papa!” I shrieked, jumping up. It was as if my father’s fall created a vacuum, for everyone in the room rushed toward him. My brother Bena got to him before me, pushing me aside to do so. My mother came running. “Moaoogo,” she shouted. “Moaoogo, what is the matter?” Bena and my uncle held him up. “I’m fine,” my father insisted, but he was out of breath. “I’m fi...
