A review by tani
LaGuardia by Nnedi Okorafor

3.0

Belated review: I read this due to the Hugo win, although it had already been kind of on my radar. I haven't read a ton of Okorafor's work, but what I have read always feels kind of disjointed and jerky to me. I appreciate her imagination and her perspective, and I keep hoping that I'll adjust to her style and enjoy it a bit more, but no luck so far. This wasn't the work that did it for me, either. The message is lovely, the art is nice, but parts of the story just didn't work. I didn't like some of the character relations, and I felt like there were times where the story lost its sense of urgency, and just kind of meandered in a very strange way. (This is especially true at the end.) I do think having read Lagoon would have helped as well, as this is set in the same world, and I was a bit confused by some of the context I was lacking. Anyway, it wasn't bad, but definitely not my favorite.