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    Binti: The Night Masquerade
    Binti: The Night Masquerade
    Binti: The Night Masquerade
    Audiobook6 hours

    Binti: The Night Masquerade

    Written by Nnedi Okorafor

    Narrated by Robin Miles

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    About this audiobook

    Binti has returned to her home planet, believing that the violence of the Meduse has been left behind. Unfortunately, although her people are peaceful on the whole, the same cannot be said for the Khoush, who fan the flames of their ancient rivalry with the Meduse.

    Far from her village when the conflicts start, Binti hurries home, but anger and resentment has already claimed the lives of many close to her.

    Once again it is up to Binti, and her intriguing new friend Mwinyi, to intervene-though the elders of her people do not entirely trust her motives-and try to prevent a war that could wipe out her people, once and for all.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateApr 17, 2018
    ISBN9781541483576
    Binti: The Night Masquerade
    Author

    Nnedi Okorafor

    NNEDI OKORAFOR, born to Igbo Nigerian parents in Cincinnati, Ohio on April 8, 1974, is an author of fantasy and science fiction for both adults and younger readers. Her Tor.com novella Binti won the 2015 Hugo and Nebula Awards; her children's book Long Juju Man won the 2007-08 Macmillan Writer's Prize for Africa; and her adult novel Who Fears Death was a Tiptree Honor Book. She is an associate professor of creative writing and literature at the University at Buffalo.

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    • 4/5
      There are lots of loose ends. Perhaps, we need another sequel.
    • 4/5
      I was a bit confused in the end. I had so many questions.
    • 4/5
      The end if several chapters were cut off mid-sentence and was very annoying. Alas, this is such a wonderful short series. I'd love to see what more Binti could grow to become.
    • 4/5
      I loved it but I wasn't inlove with the ending.
    • 4/5
      A slight surprising twist in the end. An interesting look at what we hold to be true about our own identities and what it means to embrace all of who you are. A satisfying end to the Binti trilogy, though I think many of us would be happy to go beyond this and enter Binti's world again!
    • 5/5
      Loved this series. Nnedi Okorafor & Robin Miles awesome combination!!
    • 4/5
      I skipped the second volume in the trilogy somehow, so it was a little tricky to get up to speed at the beginning of this book. The story follows what happens to Binti after she returns to Earth to her home village. There's a war between two other groups, and some new characters. Binti uses her harmonizer skills to try to bring everyone together in peace, and she learns who the Night Masquerade is.
    • 5/5
      I want more! I want to watch Binti grow up and solve more intergalactic problems.
    • 5/5
      Since the last book ended on a major cliffhanger, I was eager to read the conclusion. And, the author did not disappoint! I found Binti?s African heritage to be a great way to explore SciFi. In the first story, Binti defied tradition to travel off-world to an alien university, and found herself in the center of a war between Meduse and Koush. In the second novella, she traveled home with her Meduse friend Okwu along for the visit. She struggles with her new outsider status, discovers her heritage was not what she was lead to believe and gets caught up in world-shattering events once again. In this conclusion, the war reignites and Binti must not only embrace major changes in herself, but also help her people to do so as well. I loved how unpredictable this story was! Despite the short length, the story had several exciting twists and went in unexpected directions. Okorafor?s world-building is excellent, especially the African cultural aspects, but she didn?t shy from breaking it down either. Tradition can often be used as a cover for prejudice and intransience, and Binti can fall into the trap as easily as anyone. Overall, this conclusion was satisfying, but I truly hope the author returns to this world in the future. Highly recommended, and I will definitely read more from this author.Final note: as with the first two parts, this is not a full novel and is still way overpriced. I much prefer books to ebook, but in this case, I would recommend people buy the Kindle versions. However, I would love to see all three novellas packaged together as a special edition hardcover.
    • 5/5
      I can't even begin to write a coherent review. I really loved this series of novellas, and for me, they got better one after the other. This last one packed a serious emotional punch, and even though I knew it was unlikely to end the way it seemed, I still bawled my eyes out for like fifteen minutes straight. A really interesting world and some very large themes handled. Makes me really interested to read what else Okorafor has come out with.
    • 5/5
      Oh. . . wow. I don't know what other words to use for this book. No, for this conclusion to the trilogy. It was phenomenal. If I had thought the last book went places? Well, I was wholly unprepared for this one. The storytelling was beautiful and evocative and powerful and. . .

      Just left me feeling such a variety of emotions as I concluded this journey alongside Binti. I laughed, I cried, I raged, I celebrated alongside her and Okwu. And then there's Mwinyi who. . . I have no words. I don't often get into the whole book boyfriend thing some readers do, but he's definitely a character who makes me understand why they do.

      Once again, the narration for this was top notch. I am always left reeling by how much more powerful the emotions are in this series cause of the talented Robin Miles. I definitely have to check out more of their work. These books deal with some difficult, deep emotions given all of what Binti goes through yet the delivery is always excellent. Quality work.

      All I can say now is that I am excited beyond words for this series to be adapted and hope, hope, hope Hulu does the adaptation the justice it deserves and more. And that, of course, I will definitely be checking out more work by Nnedi Okorafor who I think might now be an auto-buy author for me.
    • 4/5
      Ever dark and evolving, yet shot through with threads of eternal hope.
    • 5/5
      The whole entire journey was amazing I can’t wait for the next one if there is a next one.
    • 5/5
      What an amazing finish to the series. Betrayal, secrets, new alien species, living spaceships that give birth to baby living spaceships. There are battles, deaths...just everything you want in a fantasy/scifi series.I very much enjoyed Binti's character arc, as well as Okwu, there is even a both of growth from Binti's family and best friend. What I enjoyed about the ending, is that while it is an ending, it's also a beginning. And while I would definitely read another book in this series, there is a clear ending.Excellent, colorful, descriptive writing. I look forward to reading more from the author!
    • 5/5
      The Ending!!! It's crazy. Great book series. Highly enjoyed reading every book.
    • 2/5
      I grew more and more disappointed with the Binti series as successive volumes were published: I just couldn't maintain my willing suspension of disbelief. Throughout the series main character Binti acquires more and more pseudo-magical mental abilities. She starts off being able to do "treeing" (which appears to be a mix between concentration help, visualisation technique, sub-conscious processing capacity, and actual magic. It's never really explained.). An encounter with an alien race rewrites part of her dna, and so she becomes part alien, gaining telepathy and other psy-like powers. Then it turns out she's descended from another alien race, whose earthly kindred are capable of a pseudo-magical telepathy that is presented like a mental Instant Messaging programme, complete with relaying attached files, and she starts accessing those skills. There are more; I am not going to mention them all. In the end, Binti unites so many superhuman and alien capabilities that the whole thing caves in on itself. None of her magical skills are adequately explained; they are not really differentiated either, and -- this is where I check out -- they all become interchangeable. Plot developments cease to have meaning, because anything that happens to or around Binti can be explained by appealing to at least three or four sets of magical abilities that can come into play. And so it's no longer important why or how things happen the way they do: the answer is an undifferentiated "because of interchangeable magical nonsense." At that point, any semblance of plot, tension, relevance or storytelling evaporates -- none of it means anything anymore. Binti ended up turning into a cheap, massively overpowered Mary Sue; an interesting Afrofuturist series left me with a sense of worst-of-YA-fanfic. Disappointing.
    • 4/5
      Such a satisfying conclusion to the series, I will miss Binti.
    • 3/5
      The final volume of the Binti trilogy. I loved the first and enjoyed the next two, but with decreasing scores.This one seemed more sociology than scifi, which is fine and interesting, but I missed the sizzle of the scifi.But this is comparitive stuff. Looking back, this trilogy is a great addition to the scifi canon.
    • 3/5
      For me, this book isn't as strong as the first two -- maybe because it feels a lot like the plot just repeats and repeats -- Binti is gifted, she works to incorporate her gift, there is a moment of overwhelming violence, Binti survives and is changed. The change leads to a different gift, and repeat.

      I appreciate that the world just keeps becoming more wondrous, and there are some moments of astounding imagination, of truly breathtaking imagery, so I'm glad I read it. It just didn't quite stand up to the first two for me.
    • 4/5
      3.5*** The final book in the Binti trilogy, has Binti trying to broker peace between the Meduse and the Khoush. As the book opens, her home village is under attack while she roams the desert with her new friend, Mwinyi, who is a harmonizer. I really like Binti, but I felt lost. Perhaps it’s been too long since I read the previous installments because I did not remember much basic information and felt confused several times. That didn’t stop me from going forward, however. Even as Binti is frequently unaware of all she is capable of, or of all that has happened, she perseveres in her goals. She will get back to her village. She will convince the elders to seek a peaceful solution. There are a couple of rather stunning developments that had me literally exclaiming aloud, “No!” or “WHAT????!!!” But I never stopped turning pages. I really marvel at the world-building that Okorafor has achieved here. The imaginative alien species are a marvel. And because I had come to trust her writing, I went with the flow and didn’t question the abilities of Okwu or New Fish. The ending is a bit of a cliff hanger. Makes me wonder if this is really a trilogy, or if Okorafor intends to continue the series.
    • 4/5
      Well, this was an interesting adventure.

      I liked it a lot. The main character is very interesting and her actions are usually heroic, and when not, they are understandable.

      It reminded me a bit to many other books i've read in the last few years, the Arbai series and the first book of Children of Time come to mind, where the matter of communication with others and understanding is explored as well. Also weird looking aliens.

      I liked it
    • 5/5
      A mostly satisfying ending to a very unique and delightfully short trilogy. Had some unexpected surprises, which is always nice.
    • 4/5
      That was a satisfying end to the series. I really loved how the series explored the connections and perceived connections between home and identity. I loved watching Binti's understanding and abilities develop, and I'm glad Okorafor didn't shy away from some of the grittier events that took place. While nothing felt terribly shocking about the course of action in the book, it was gratifying to watch the events as they unfolded. I am going to miss Binti and her friends as they embark on a new chapter of their lives, with a new, ever-evolving understanding of self.

      Many thanks to Tor and Net Galley for the e-galley of The Night Masquerade.
    • 4/5
      I'm reading this series out of order, because this volume is part of this year's Hugo shortlist. I've read book 1, but not 2, so had hopes that book 3 would make sense with that amount of background. Sadly, this was not the case, and I spent a lot of time wondering what I was missing, and whether having read book 2 would have helped. The story is a fascinating set of related set pieces. At times these flow together into a story, and at other times they are stones in a path. I could easily have stopped at multiple points (and did, for some weeks, without any interest in continuing). To some extent, I finished because I want to finish reading this Hugo category, and get my voting done. I want to say I loved it, but it isn't exactly true. I love details. I love characters. I loved the perspectives and the ideas. But it didn't grab me the way I remember book 1 doing so
    • 4/5
      Bugger than the first two, good expansion of the universe. Seems a bit rushed still. Big plot points seem to happen, and then move on, without any resolution. Also this character just keeps getting more powerups (for lack of a better term) which feels like a bit weird after a while
    • 3/5
      I don't know if my rating is 3 stars or 4, so I put 3. This series has been both enjoyable and frustrating. There were some plot decisions that made no sense to me, which was made worse by the fact that I am really interested in this universe. At the end of this final book I am left feeling like I read something with a lot of promise that reminded me of a lot of books and movies that I loved, but mashed up in ways that didn't quite mesh for me. I want to love it, but I just don't. I'd totally try to read further books set in this universe though.
    • 5/5
      I think this was the best of the trilogy. Worth reading. I wanted the ship to get to go to the school.
    • 3/5
      The Binti trilogy comes to a conclusion by ambling toward a moment of violence and crisis and then sort of rambling away from it. My expectations for the volume were not met and some aspects were very predictable, but I still found myself drawn along by the author's vision and voice and will continue to seek out her books.
    • 5/5
      What an amazing finish to the series. Betrayal, secrets, new alien species, living spaceships that give birth to baby living spaceships. There are battles, deaths...just everything you want in a fantasy/scifi series.I very much enjoyed Binti's character arc, as well as Okwu, there is even a both of growth from Binti's family and best friend. What I enjoyed about the ending, is that while it is an ending, it's also a beginning. And while I would definitely read another book in this series, there is a clear ending.Excellent, colorful, descriptive writing. I look forward to reading more from the author!
    • 4/5
      The third book in the Binti novella series continues her story as she tries to stop a conflict between two tribes while also finding her place among her tribe. It is another good and well written part of the series. While I did enjoy it, it is not nearly as good as the first two novellas.