Binti by David Palumbo
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Binti by David Palumbo
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I'm also just exasperated (both medieval and modern) that we're supposed to believe Binti's family is dead, despite us being told Very Pointedly that there's giant trees with giant roots that connect to their basement that go straight out to water miles and miles away. Like. Obviously they escapped into these giant roots. Because if they didn't, what was the point in giving us that information? Like, good set up, but the fact that Binti isn't immediately coming to this conclusion is infuriating. Her family's lived here for 6 generations. And I'm supposed to believe she doesn't know about the escape tunnel under the house??????
It's a disservice to Binti as a character, and us as the audience.
Just like expecting me to believe she doesn't know how to swim despite living next to a giant lake That Has Nothing Wrong With It! Even if her parents didn't teach her — and if they didn't, when the lake is close enough that these little kids are constantly sneaking away to go to it at night withour supervision, then what are you telling me about them as parents that I'm supposed to believe are responsible??? — even if she was never formally taught by an adult, she and the other kids who sneak there all the time would have either figured it out themselves, OR drowned trying! They've been sneaking out of their homes since they were little and going here at night without telling any adults! And I'm supposed to believe none of them know how to swim???? Then you better tell me Binti's fucking tragic backstory of losing multile friends to drowning and then living with the shame of never telling anyone she was there when it happened so she wouldn't get in trouble!!!!!
It'd be one thing if this lake were fucking toxic or had dangerous animals in it, but it doesn't! There's nothing wrong with it! At all!
No I will not shut up about the lake. It's so fucking annoying. It defies all attempts at logic!
The third Binti book is so infuriatingly bad I legitimately cannot stand the idea of reading further. How many times is the plot going to stall while Binti cries and shrieks and screams while we're told to worship the idea of Ancient Aliens. I'm 50 pages in and nothing has happened.
Someone just summarize the rest of the book for me, I refuse to read any further, it's genuinely that bad.
There is a single, token trans girl in Binti: Home, which is more than I can say for Martha Wells, but that's not saying much.
The character appears for maybe 2 pages, helps Binti carry her bags, and is never seen again. And was not mentioned as existing until she appeared.
if you're trying to get people to root for your "underdog" character, don't tell us they're filthy fucking rich and have been for multiple generations, maybe.
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The only compliment I have for the Binti series is that Binti does, at least, have a personality.
The same cannot be said for any other "character" though.
Binti's personality:
arrogant, self-important, holier-than-thou, self-pitying whiny crybaby
She also shrieks a lot. Like, a lot. I don't know how she can still talk with how often she's shrieking and screaming abruptly during dialogue.
Now if only we were meant to see any of these traits as negatives, insted of the idea that she's better than everyone around her (especially the slave she mocks in the first story), being presented as objectively true and we should agree, she could be a great character.
But we're supposed to agree that she's inherently more valuable than the slave she mocks in the first story, because *checks notes* her family is filthy rich and builds supercomputers for a living and she's getting paid to go to the best college ever.
The classism from Nnedi Okorafor is even more blatant than Martha Wells'.
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ableist language using "psycho" as an insult, but someone pointing out last year that the so-called "representation" in Binti literally goes only skin deep.
havent read the comments yet, people might be bigoted in them
if I didn't have a buzz cut I'd be tearing my hair out right now over how terrible Binti: The Night Masquerade is.