I wanted to love this so badly. And I did, in parts. The characterisation here is wonderful; Binti is the most interesting protagonist I've read in a long time. I think that the length was the major issue here. The plot was too thin, despite the impressive world building, and everything was resolved far too quickly and neatly at the end. I'll still read the other two books in the series, but I feel like this would have worked better as a full length novel rather than a novella. There was just too much that needed doing, and it deserved to be given the space to be done as well as this author clearly can.