Arie's Reviews > Who Fears Death

I don't know exactly why, but I can't get into Nnedi Okorafor's writing at all. It certainly isn't bad, by any means. There are moments of incredible beauty, a raw power to the words and the stories and characters are completely unique. I just always feel that the stories she tells are almost too big for her to control, something in the writing is fighting the confines of the pages and so the stories jump around and sense is lost - just enough to make reading a chore instead of a pleasure - or even a good challenge; just enough to lose the impact the writing deserves. Of course it could be argued that this is entirely the intent - surrealism is the intended outcome - but I feel there is a difference between books that are not meant to make sense and are perfect in this, and books where sense is lost where it should not be. I found this with Lagoon, I found this with Who Fears Death, I think for now I will read other books by other authors.