#38: Binti: Home by Nnedi Okorafor

Binti is a young woman at a school far from her home planet--and being bonded to an alien doesn't help--but troubles grow larger when she returns home in the second in the Binti series, Binti: Home.

Nnedi Okorafor's sci-fi series, suitable for young adults, has fresh world-building and interesting plotting.

The only criticism I have of the slender second volume is that it seems to work best as a bridge between the first and the third novels and doesn't really stand alone.

I would recommend Okorafor's Binti novels as an all-ages read for science fiction fans looking for a different voice in fiction.

I checked this out from the New Castle-Henry County Public Library in New Castle, Indiana and read it quickly.

#17: Binti by Nnedi Okorafor

A young woman is the first to leave her remote village and go to a prestigious college across the galaxy--but when aliens board her ship en route, her future shifts dramatically in Nnedi Okorafor's Binti.

This slender sci-fi adventure, with its undertones of tolerance and acceptance, could easily be a young adult novel, although I don't think it has been billed as such.  It is accessible to any reader with its clever protagonist, unique aliens, and some well-developed world-building.   

Binti ended sooner than I might have liked, but hopefully might be the opening salvo for future adventures.

I bought this novel for my beloved Kindle and read it quickly.  I was interested enough to start looking for more writing from Okorafor.