Star: A book set in space or one that involves astronomy, a famous person, a character who wants to be famous or once was, a starfish.

I think the bigger issue I saw though was that I felt that the book was over explaining a lot of things and it felt like we had several “endings” and that threw things up for me a bit too. The pacing of the book was a bit off I thought.

The writing was solid, an I saw echoes of topics that were covered in Octavia Butler’s books (Xenogenesis series). And of course we see prior characters as well. I also loved the characters of Mwinyi and Okwu. I felt for her still warring within herself to not lash out and try to change what she perceives may be coming next. She makes mistakes, but is trying her best to do what she can to keep her people safe. The Khoush and Meduse still continue to attack one another, and unfortunately others are now in the cross-fire.īinti is such a great character. “The Night Masquerade” follows Binti who has returned to her home planet trying to do what she can to get back to her people with her knowing all of her family are lost to her now. All together that is why I only gave this one 4 stars. I felt myself losing a bit of interest towards the end.

Just because I think it would have made it a more “real” ending in my eyes.

I think it may have been better if it had ended differently too. I will echo what some other readers said though which is that it felt like the story had several endings. Okorafor does a great job of ending the series in a satisfying way. I honestly took a while to get back to it because I wanted to take my time.

Binti the night masquerade