Review by Booklist Review
*Starred Review* Okorafor picks up where Binti Home (2017) left off, with Binti returning from her women's pilgrimage to find her Himba village sacked and burned and her family missing, presumed dead. The devastation she sees hurts her to the very core and brings back the powerful Night Masquerade, a Himba omen that she has not seen since she left her village for Oozma University, the school that taught her how to control her Meduse self and introduced her to her Meduse mate, Okwu. Now Okwu is missing, and Binti and Mwinyi, an Enyi Zinariya harmonizer who speaks to his ancestors using his bare feet, must discover if anything remains of the Root Tree and if there can be peace between the Khosh and the Meduse. Though Okorafor uses dreams and memories to fill in gaps in time, it is best to start with the first book in the series, Binti (2015). Those who do will be rewarded with the painterly imagery that describes Binti's worlds and the satisfying ending she has been working toward for three books.--Austin, Tiffany Copyright 2017 Booklist
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Review by Publisher's Weekly Review
Okorafor's lively, dramatic third and final Binti far-future science fantasy novella (after Binti: Home) finds Binti, the young protagonist, struggling to integrate new perceptions from the recently awakened alien technology in her body. This is an inheritance from her father's tribe, the Enyi Zinariya, that allows her to communicate across long distances, view historical events at the sites where they happened, and experience other similarly disorienting things. Binti has always identified with her mother's people, the Himba, who see her father's folk as uncultured barbarians. The Himba, however, are in danger of being caught up in an outbreak of war between the human Khoush tribe and the jellyfish-like alien Meduse. Only Binti, who happens to be bonded to a Meduse in a hive-mind symbiosis, can possibly blend the cultures, technologies, viewpoints, and interests of all these groups and attempt to bring about a lasting peace. Incident follows incident in a dizzying array, action is fraught with enough emotion for drama to become melodrama, and several key plot points are inadequately foreshadowed, but Binti's powerful feelings of displacement, loss, grief, and joy make this entertaining narrative vivid, funny, and memorable. (Jan.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
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Review by Library Journal Review
In the conclusion to Okorafor's Hugo- and Nebula Award-winning trilogy (Binti; Binti: Home), her heroine has returned to her home planet from space and is trying to put the violence of the Meduse behind her. While her people are relatively peaceful, not everyone has forgotten what the Meduse have done. While Binti is away, the Khoush come to her village to find her Meduse comrade Okwu, leaving destruction in their wake. As Binti rushes back with her newest friend Mwinyi, death has already struck too close to home. Hoping to save her people, even though the elders don't trust her new affiliations, Binti tries once again to negotiate a truce between two warring groups. This time, however, it may be too late. Family and friendship remain at the heart of this remarkable trilogy as it comes to a fulfilling close. -VERDICT The worldbuilding here continues to be unparalleled as Okorafor's deliberate yet delicate prose transports readers to a place in the stars once again.-KC © Copyright 2017. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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