this book felt very messy to me.

now that could be because of a number of things.
the biggest two being that i am very very new to the sff genre and i don’t understand a lot of what’s going on in this book and absolutely nothing is explained in it so that clearly didn’t help my confusion from start to finish throughout the entire series.
the second being that because absolutely nothing is explained everything feels alarmist randomly thrown together.
why does binti get those strange dreams that sometimes seem to be future sometimes past?
what was the entire stuff with the fighting and then the end?

either this entire novella series is very messily done, could be because they are novellas and that doesn’t leave a huge amount of room to explain, or i just don’t understand it all (but again explanations would have helped with that?)

i certainly didn’t understand the sff stuff.
i might have been able to understand the cultural spectacle binti struggles with of they would have explained them better instead of just relatively vaguely stating something about it somewhere as a side note. maybe.

i am apparently the kind of reader that the author needs to take by the hand, point at what’s happening and explain it overly detailed for me to actually feel as if i understand what the heck is going on!


all in all this book especially but this series overall wasn’t for me.
but i am happy that do many people seem to get so much enjoyment out of it even if i feel utterly confused by it.