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The setting is otherworldly but the trauma is not

Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson

December 9, 2020 by ElCicco Leave a Comment

This is my third Nalo Hopkinson novel, and while I think Brown Girl in the Ring and Sister Mine are better works, I nevertheless liked this one quite a lot. Hopkinson has a unique talent for blending fantasy, science fiction, and Afro-Caribbean culture/history into stories of female empowerment. Midnight Robber’s main character is a girl who suffers trauma at the hands of someone she ought to have been able to trust and who then must find the path to her own healing. Midnight Robber is […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, cbr12, ElCicco, Fiction, Midnight Robber, Nalo Hopkinson

ElCicco's CBR12 Review No:51 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, cbr12, ElCicco, Fiction, Midnight Robber, Nalo Hopkinson ·
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Any Sufficiently Advanced Science Fiction is Indistinguishable from Magic

Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson

March 20, 2020 by Pheagan Leave a Comment

  Once in a while you encounter a book that makes you fall so in love with it that you check an author’s bibliography and pray that it’s long enough to give you stuff to read for the rest of your life, and Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber is that book for me. Hopkinson is one of those sci fi writers that I’ve been aware of for awhile and have been meaning to read and I am ashamed it took me this long, because she just […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Midnight Robber, Nalo Hopkinson, sci-fi

Pheagan's CBR12 Review No:5 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Midnight Robber, Nalo Hopkinson, sci-fi ·
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