Hi ForeverBookers,
I’ve just finished “Binti: Home,” the second Binti novella by Nnedi Okorafor and I really enjoyed it!
3 Stars!
“Binti: Home” tells the story of Binti when she goes home from Oomza University, the planet that she travelled to in the first novella to study to become a Master Harmonizer, like her father. She takes her friend Okwu with her. He’s finally sexed here as a male, but is still referred to as it as well as he, him. While on earth, Binti learns of a secret organisation that her grandmother is a part of. Could she be a part of it too?
I read “Binti: Home” for a readathon, which was:
Reading Rivalry - The Best Of Both Worlds - Binti is literally set on two different planets.
Spoilers Below…
“The sunlight shined on me edan, which floated before me in a network of current, a symmetry of parts. I’d never seen it disassemble like this and making it do so had not been my intention. I’d been trying to get the object itself to communicate with me by running current between its demarcations.”
Binti is trying to work out what her “edan,” the object she found on earth years prior is about and why she found it! Is there some symbolism to it? That’s revealed at the end of the novella. Also, Binti is supposed to go on pilgrimage while she’s back on earth. She DOES this but it’s a different sort of pilgrimage than what she thought.
I really enjoyed seeing the friendship between Binti and Okwu. As I noted above, Okwu is a male so I really want for a relationship to develop between Binti and Okwu in the last novella.
Overall, “Binti: Home” was entertaining. There were a lot of complex terms at the end, so it was a little info dumpy. That’s why I’m giving Binti: Home, 3 stars!
I’m reading the next in the Royals series, Crave Me by Geneva Lee next.
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