Eleanor’s Reviews > The Book of Phoenix > Status Update

This is striking me a bit as Shelter did, in that it's an incredible premise wrapped in deeply average prose. Okorafor is doing more interesting things than Franklin, though (as Abigail Nussbaum notes, our (anti)heroine is an angry black woman in a burka who wants to blow up the US Capitol; that's pretty damn bold). I'm realising, however, just how much I want prose to be—at minimum—smooth and fluid.