Books by Nnedi Okorafor
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review 1: Lagoon is an original take on the whole Aliens visiting Earth science-fiction extravaganza, and largely it succeeds by adding something new and fresh. Even the viewpoint alternates from a human perspective, to spiders and a swordfish, which manages to expand the world and the sco...
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review 1: Lovely book for middle grade/young adult readers. Story is intriguing and loads of Nigerian mythology that leaves me wanting more (so I am going to read more of Okorafor's books). I do agree that the showdown with the bad guy at the end felt a little thrown in at last minute, a...
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review 1: I think this book has a lot of important things to say and has plot elements that are AWESOME to read about...but I did NOT enjoy it. The writing style just didn't click with me, it was full of inter-character conflict that served basically no purpose, and I had to MAKE myself fi...
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review 1: Ms Okorafor has followed the admonition of Chinua Achebe that, "If you don't like someone's story, write your own." The opening story, "The Magic Negro," shoves a stick of dynamite up a tiresome plot device of American cinema and launches our journey with a bang. In the loom of...
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review 1: Akata feels like there is nowhere she belongs. She was born in America, but now lives in Nigeria. She is African, but is albino. She is also a great athlete, but can play sports in the sun because of her condition. Akata discovers that she has magical powers. These powers set her...