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A review by lauraborkpower
The Night Masquerade by Nnedi Okorafor
3.0
*SPOILERS BELOW*
The three stars applies to the entire Binti trilogy, not just this book. I'd give this one as a stand-alone only two stars.
As with the first two books, I found this third a bit underdeveloped, though interesting. I wanted a lot more time spent in each location, with each scene, and with each character. It's just too thin, and that's a shame because the world is novel and has loads of potential.
I am also irritated by the sudden third-person when Binti dies at the end of the second act (yes, Binti dies. Don't worry, she comes back). This is a first-person narrator and yet our first person dies, does not narrate as a ghost, but instead, we get a few chapters with a third-person narration until Binti is reincarnated. This, my friends, felt like a 100% cheat. A f*ck you to the reader who has spent now 2.5 books with Binti in the first-person. Don't do that. Okorafor. Just, like, don't.
The three stars applies to the entire Binti trilogy, not just this book. I'd give this one as a stand-alone only two stars.
As with the first two books, I found this third a bit underdeveloped, though interesting. I wanted a lot more time spent in each location, with each scene, and with each character. It's just too thin, and that's a shame because the world is novel and has loads of potential.
I am also irritated by the sudden third-person when Binti dies at the end of the second act (yes, Binti dies. Don't worry, she comes back). This is a first-person narrator and yet our first person dies, does not narrate as a ghost, but instead, we get a few chapters with a third-person narration until Binti is reincarnated. This, my friends, felt like a 100% cheat. A f*ck you to the reader who has spent now 2.5 books with Binti in the first-person. Don't do that. Okorafor. Just, like, don't.