I didn’t realize how incredibly boring this story actually is when you read the source material. It was really just a lot of small things and over detailing rooms and circumstances rather than actual plot.

A quirky little story that talks about life and death and our role/responsibility to it and humanity. I thought it was darkly funny and enjoyable.

I found this to be really boring actually. I wasn’t engaged in this story the way I thought I would be and spent the whole time waiting for it to be over.

I thought the characters were the most interesting part of this story. I liked that it was complicated and hard to pick a side, because it felt very real. However, I felt like the whole situation could have been avoided by people communicating more. I think this will be the last contemporary fiction I read for a long time, because while I thought it was a good book I didn’t enjoy reading it.

Overall I was disappointed that this book focuses more on the daily lives of the characters than the actual mirror earth. I get that it’s a metaphor for like, our own difficulties and issues being reflected back but I really just didn’t care and wanted it to be more sci-fi than it was.

I really enjoyed that this wasn’t super character driven, because I felt like the characters already being friends was good enough and I got the action packed space story I wanted. The plot twist is totally obvious, but I think it makes for a good set up for a series.

If I had to pick a "classic" novel that I thought was worth something, this would be it.

This was a fantastic read! I personally love novellas more than actual novels, and I think that Okorafor did a fantastic job packing so much into such a short novella. I ate through it and the two sequels in about a day, because I was so drawn into the world and the characters. I loved the Meduse and Binti's growth in this volume, and would highly recommend it to sci-fi aficionados.

This was such a unique and interesting story. I like how it was kind of a stream of consciousness, and the atmosphere of the novel made me feel like I was underwater too. Fantastic imagery and characters, and I will certainly be reading more of Solomon's work.

I thought that Margery was very interesting, and liked that she pulled Mary in. This volume was more condensed and local which I appreciated, and I think Mary became much more interesting as well. I never thought I would be so giggly over a kiss scene.